Another useful tool is a Milky Way calendar. The website Capture the Atlas makes them every year and emails them for free to interested users. The website has an email signup form.

First on the calendar is the Thunder Moon, otherwise known as the Buck Moon, which will light up the night on July 10, ...

July will kick off with colorful flashes of light during Independence Day celebrations across the United States, but the ...

Venus continues to be the “Morning Star” in the east before dawn, albeit it has become dimmer — but still bright — as it ...

“It’s important to choose one of the best days of the season to photograph the Milky Way,” he said. “For this you can use a Milky Way Calendar according to your location, and look for a ...

UNDATED (WKRC) - Stargazers have a few upcoming opportunities to see our home galaxy spread across the night sky. Earth is one of hundreds of billions planets in the Milky Way, and the galaxy ...

Ah, the Milky Way, our glittering home in the cosmos. Seen in an unencumbered night sky, far from the glare of city lights, it seems magnificent and eternal in its enormity. Nothing could shift ...

There will be three full moons during the summer. And the sky this season has a number of bright stars that form easily ...

From there, use Google Maps to ascertain your latitude and then use the Milky Way calendar closest to where you are. The Milky Way is seen over a mountain in Ratnapura, Sri Lanka, on April 16 ...