This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 9 to 15, 2026
New moon falls at 1:02 AM on Monday, so this is the darkest week of November: the Moon is absent until Wednesday evening and sets before 11 PM…
This Week’s Sky
8 posts in This Week’s Sky · A week-by-week look at what is happening overhead: the Moon’s phase and rise times, the visible planets, meteor showers, and anything else worth stepping outside for.
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 2 to 8, 2026
This is the dark week of November: the waning crescent Moon thins from 40 percent on Monday to nothing by Sunday, rising later each morning and leaving the…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 26 to November 1, 2026
The week opens with the Hunter’s Moon rising just after sunset on Monday, covers the Pleiades on Tuesday night, then thins toward last quarter on Sunday, when the…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 19 to 25, 2026
The Moon grows from a half to the Hunter’s Moon this week, which makes it a week for bright targets: Saturn beside the Moon on Friday and Saturday,…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 12 to 18, 2026
The Moon returns to the evening sky this week, growing from a hair-thin crescent on Monday to first quarter on Sunday. Mercury reaches greatest elongation on Monday, Mars…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: October 5 to 11, 2026
This is the darkest week of October and one of the busiest. The Moon shrinks from a morning crescent to new moon on Saturday, leaving every evening moonless.…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: September 28 to October 4, 2026
The Moon wanes and rises later each night, Saturn reaches opposition on Sunday with its rings open again, Neptune and Uranus are in reach of binoculars, and Venus…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: September 14 to 20, 2026
The crescent Moon passes Venus on Monday, reaches first quarter on Friday, and Saturn rises at nightfall three weeks before opposition. A night-by-night guide with exact times.