October's sky

October 11: Jupiter
October 21: Orionid Meteor ShowerOctober 22: Mercury
October 31

September

The Moon meets the Pleiades
Delta Aurigid Meteor Shower

On September 10, Mercury, Venus and Mars will be close to the star Spica, 30 minutes after sunset.

August 2008

August 12: Perseid meteor shower
August 13: Multiple conjunction of planets
August 16: Partial lunar eclipse

July's sky

July 2: Jupiter and its moons.

July 6: Saturn and Mars meet in the Beehive Cluster (M44) at the beginning of te month. Then later in July 6 the young Moon will join them in Leo close to the star Regulus.

July 10: Saturn and Mars on telescope

July 27: Delta Aquarid Meteor shower

The sky on June

The light in the sky

Last week I spotted a brilliant object in the sky. At first I thought it was Venus but Venus rises at dawn, not at 7 something pm. Jupiter rises after midnight these days, so it wasn't Jupiter either. The brighter stars in the vecinity were Sirius and Canopus, higher in the sky at that moment--so what the hell was that? I still don't know. I went for my binoculars and I noticed the thing was double and it was just fixed in the sky. Later it started to rain and I didn't see it again--actually I haven't seen it again.

The sky on May

May 1: Watch Saturn's rings before they disappear from our view later this year.
May 5: Eta Aquarid Meteor Shower
May 6: The Moon and Mercury
May21-23: Mars travels through the Beehive cluster (M44) in Cancer.

Next viewing of the International Space Station

April 28
5:23-5:28am (SW-NE)
April 30
4:41-4:45am (NW-NE)

Lyrid Meteor Shower

The Lyrids peeks on the night of April 21/22, but you can still see meteorites several days before and several days after the peak.

International Space Station

The International Space Station will be seen again from Puerto Rico this week several times. The ISS will be brighter than the brightest star in the sky every evening: Sirius (αCMa) glowing
at -1.46.
April 15 @ 7:53pm (NW-NE) 30°
April 17 @ 7:05pm (NW-SE) 30°
April 18 @ 7:25pm (W-SE) 36°

Pleiades, Jupiter & Saturn

The moon passes the Pleiades star cluster (W) on April 8.

Jupiter dominates the morning sky early April shining at

magnitude -2.2 (SE).

Saturn, the lord of the rings, glows at magnitude 0.4 among the stars of Leo on the evening sky this month. Saturn's rings will disappear from our sight later this year as the planet tilts edge-on.

Saturn: Lord Of The Rings

It bothers me that I can't take pictures of everything I see, so in a desperate move to see if I can take a picture of Saturn, I tried to hook my videocamera to my telescope. It was not entirely good, but not bad either. What do you think?

Jupiter & Comet 46P/Wirtanen

Magnificent Jupiter rises at dawn in the southern sky every morning this month followed by Mercury and Venus. Use binoculars to spot Jupiter's 4 biggest satellites: Ganymede, Callisto, Io & Europa. You can find Jupiter in Sagittarius.

Comet Wirtanen will pass several deep-sky objects in constellation Auriga and glowing around 9th magnitud. On March 23 will be the next time the comet could be observed without the moon in sight. You may need binoculars to watch it. Auriga is in the western horizon at night, around 9pm this month.

Space Station & Endeavour

When to watch:

* Saturday (March 22) @ 5:47am (N->E-SE)
* Sunday (March 23) @ 6:08am (NW->S) & 7:14pm (S->E)
* Monday (March 24) @ 7:40pm (W-NW->N)
* Tuesday (March 25) @ 5:22am (SW->S-SE)

* Wednesday (March 26) @ 6:48pm (W->N)

March 18

Watch Saturn's rings before they disappear later this year when the Earth and Saturn's rings line up (edge-on view).

Asteroid Ceres is getting closer to the Pleiades star cluster.