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your guide to constellations deep sky

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tonight's sky highlights of the october

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october provides the year's best views

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of the king of planets

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jupiter rises in the east after sunset

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and dominates the night sky all month

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use binoculars to watch the dance of its

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pegasus the great winged horse of greek

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mythology prances across the autumn

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night sky

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his body is denoted by a large area of

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pegasus hosts the first sun-like star

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known to have an extra-solar planet 51

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pegasi

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the brightest corner of the great square

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alpheratz is also the brightest star in

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in greek mythology this princess was

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chained to a rock near the sea to

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appease a sea monster within andromeda's

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boundaries look for m31 the andromeda

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galaxy an island of billions of stars on

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a clear dark night it appears as a faint

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smudge of light approximately 2.5

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million light years away m-31 is the

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closest spiral galaxy to our own milky

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way galaxy and the most distant object

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you can see with your eyes alone

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binoculars and small telescopes reveal

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m31's glowing nucleus and spiral arms

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the andromeda galaxy is slowly consuming

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one of its smaller companion galaxies

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ruddy mars rises in the east well before

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an interesting meteor shower happens

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from october 20th to 24th

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after midnight look to the east where

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the constellation orion is rising

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every few minutes you may spy a tiny

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remnant of halley's comet burning up

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high in the atmosphere

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the night sky is always a celestial