I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Stargazing over Pottsville is a bit of a tradeoff this month. The bad news is that sunsets in March are progressively later, ...

Venus will plummet dramatically toward its inferior conjunction on March 22, when it passes 8.4 degrees north of the sun. For a few days around this date, we can try spotting Venus in bright ...

Venus, by contrast, is 27 degrees high in the ... Dubhe and Merak point to Polaris, the North Star and brightest star in Ursa Minor, the Little Bear. Using those same "pointers" one can go in ...

Sky This Week is brought to you in part by Celestron. Friday, March 7Look north after dark tonight to find the curved form of ...

Venus goes retrograde roughly every two years for a period of several weeks, transitioning in visibility from being an evening star to a morning star. Venus is named for the Roman goddess of love ...

Lord Tennyson’s poem “Crossing the Bar” is not really a star but the planet Venus when it is visible for a while after sunset. And Venus is now at its almost unbelievably brightest at a ...