October 2, 2024: An annular solar eclipse today for sky watchers in southern South America.  Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are visible during nighttime hours.

October 1, 2024: Planets Uranus and Neptune are visible through a binocular during the night.  Venus, Saturn, Jupiter and Mars are easily visible.

September 30, 2024:  Look for Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS during morning twilight from late September to early October.

September 30, 2024: The morning crescent Leo moon is in the eastern sky before sunrise. During nighttime hours, Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are visible.

September 29, 2024:  Before sunrise look for the waning crescent Moon-Regulus conjunction in the eastern sky. Four bright planets are visible during the night.

September 28, 2024:  The crescent moon is near the Sickle of Leo before sunrise. Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are visible before sunrise.

September 27, 2024: This morning the moon appears with the Beehive star cluster in the eastern sky before daybreak, a Moon-Beehive conjunction.  Four planets – Venus, Saturn, Jupiter, and Mars are visible during the night.

September 24, 2024: Before sunrise, the nearly half-full moon is near bright Jupiter and Mars.  Venus and Saturn are visible after sundown.

September 23, 2024: Before sunrise, the gibbous moon nears Jupiter.  Mars is to Jupiter’s lower left.  Venus and Saturn are in the evening sky.

September 22, 2024: Today, the autumnal equinox occurs signaling the begin of autumn in the northern hemisphere.  Across North America, the moon occults or eclipses stars in the Pleiades star cluster.