What to look out, and up, for in October.

Jeni, Paul & Ralph pick their highlights for this month’s skies; starting with the solar system objects on offer to observers and imagers:

• Blue/green ice giant Uranus
• The Orionids meteor shower brings us the debris from Comet Halley
• Saturn, recently liberated from the perpetual gaze of Cassini
• A not-to-be-missed conjunction of Venus and Mars on 5th October.
• Finally, a couple of comets that may be visible

Next up, we take a deep sky pick from our list of favourites for this time of year:

• Paul – Spiral Galaxy NGC772 in Aries.
• Jeni – Brocchi’s Cluster or The Coathanger Cluster in Vulpecula
• Ralph – The Triangulum Galaxy in Triangulum

And we finish this sky guide with October’s moon phases.