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your guide to constellations deep-sky

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objects planets and events tonight's sky

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Venus and Saturn hang over the

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Saturn shines higher in the sky but

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moves closer to Venus at the end of the

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month use a telescope to see the phase

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Mars rains over the southern sky as

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a telescope may reveal some bright and

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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 his body is denoted by a large

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area of stars known as the great square

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Pegasus hosts 51 pegasi the first

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sun-like star known to have an

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extrasolar planet the brightest corner

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of the great square alpharatz is also

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the brightest star in the constellation

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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 with 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

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m31 is the closest spiral galaxy to our

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own Milky Way galaxy and the most

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distant object you can see with your

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eyes alone binoculars and small

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telescopes reveal m30 ones glowing

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nucleus and spiral arms a smaller

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companion galaxy m110 appears as a faint

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spot near the large galaxy the Andromeda

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galaxy is slowly pulling in and will

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eventually consume another one of its

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in the early days of october try to

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catch mercury low in the eastern sky

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right before sunrise mercury will move

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closer to the sun and become lost in the

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Jupiter takes Mercury's place above the

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eastern horizon in the mornings of late

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October aim a telescope at the gas

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the Orionid meteor shower peaks on the

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however bright moonlight may wash out

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all but the brightest meteors after

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midnight look to the east where the

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constellation Orion is rising every few

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minutes you may spy a tiny remnant of

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Halley's Comet burning up high in the

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the night sky is always a celestial

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showcase