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  鈥� March 1 –  Around 5:00 A.M., CST, go outside and face west to find the almost full moon. Now, face south and look for the brightest thing in … Highlights of the March Sky 2018

    They say that the month of March comes in like a lion and there is actually some truth to that as the spring equinox heralds the arrival of … March 2018 Feature – Leo The Lion

    Looking up at a star-filled sky, it becomes a tempting thought to try and start connecting all of those dots in order to make your own set of … February 2018 Feature – The Winter Hexagon

  鈥� Feb 2 – For the next two weeks, look for the Zodiacal Light in the western evening sky. In late winter and early spring, it is seen for a … Highlights of the February Sky 2018

    Eighteenth Century French astronomer and comet hunter Charles Messier decided that he had had enough of those annoying fuzzy-looking clouds in the night sky, especially those that made … January 2018 Feature – Messier 41 – An Open Star Cluster

  鈥� Jan 1 – The moon is at perigee, its closest point in its orbit around the Earth at a distance of 221,559 miles, at 3:49 P.M. CST Full moon … Highlights of the January Sky 2018

  鈥� Nov 2nd – On this day in 1917, the Mount Wilson 100-inch telescope saw 鈥渇irst light鈥�. First light is when a new telescope gets its first use gathering … Highlights of the November Sky

  Open star clusters are groups of a few hundred to a few thousand stars, all having formed at about the same time from the same vast, cold cloud of … November Feature – The Double Cluster in Perseus

    鈥� Oct 3rd – On this day in 1942, the first V-2 rocket was launched. The V-2 was the first long-range guided ballistic missile and was developed in … Highlights of the October Sky

    For the backyard astronomer, no other celestial object can offer as much beauty, complexity, and sheer wonder than does our closest neighbor in space, the moon. One could … October Feature – Tycho Crater