Discover the highlights of the Northern Hemisphere’s winter night sky with our guide to the top celestial sights to enjoy through binoculars between November 2025 and January 2026. Winter in the ...

Viewable objects include the Moon, Jupiter, Saturn, Venus, the Milky Way, and star systems. An ordinary pair of binoculars, a tripod, and an astronomy app are all you need to start exploring the night ...

Binoculars never get enough credit when it comes to stargazing. They don’t have as much light-gathering ability and magnification as telescopes do, but binoculars have definite advantages. For one ...

It’s been seven long years since the last total solar eclipse to grace the skies above North America occurred Aug. 21, 2017. Now, the Moon once again passes directly in front of the Sun from this ...

Even though winter doesn’t officially begin until Dec. 21, one glance at the current evening sky shows that it is on its way. The 20th century’s preeminent deep-sky author, Walter Scott Houston, once ...

I hope some of you got to see Venus alongside the crescent moon yesterday afternoon. The view through binoculars was simply amazing. Venus was brilliant compared to the dull moon. Though the moon was ...