Monthly Night Sky information provided by Chris Vaughan (@Astrogeoguy) at Starry Night Education (@StarryNightEdu).

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  • Bright Moon Shines above Saturn and Neptune (overnight)

    A short time after the bright, waning gibbous moon clears the treetops in the east around midnight on Tuesday evening, July 15, the prominent, yellowish dot of Saturn will climb…

  • Third Quarter Moon (at 00:38 GMT on Friday)

    The moon will complete three quarters of its orbit around Earth, measured from the previous new moon, on Thursday, July 17 at 8:38 p.m. EDT or 5:38 p.m. PDT, which…

  • The Stinging Scorpion (evening)

    After dusk in mid-July, the distinctive constellation of Scorpius, the Scorpion reaches its peak elevation over the southern horizon. The constellation’s brightest star is orange-tinted Antares, the “Rival of Mars”.…

  • Crescent Moon Crosses the Pleiades (pre-dawn)

    In the eastern sky before dawn on Sunday morning, July 20, the pretty, waning crescent moon will shine very close to the bright little Pleiades Star Cluster (aka The Seven…