This weekend, if we're lucky to get clear enough skies, check out one of the best moon phases for lunar observation.

Weekend Sky Report

First Quarter Moon

This weekend's target is a classic cold weather cluster right next door to its famous half-sisters.

Hyades

This weekend, look for a classic target known and celebrated since time immemorial.

Pleiades

This weekend, two rare lunar treats. And the trick is, they always happen at the same time.

Halloween Full Moon

This weekend, let's identify a classic northern hemisphere constellation.

Cassiopeia

While the moon is pretty to look at and easy to find, its light outshines a lot of deep sky objects. Galaxies, star clusters, nebulae. So moonless nights are what amateur astronomers live for.

Globular Cluster M22

Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, AND Neptune will all be in the evening sky this weekend. And so will Pluto, if you still consider it to be a planet, but most amateur telescopes won't have a chance of spotting it.

Planet Parade

On Friday night October 2nd, Mars hangs out with the nearly full Moon.

Mars and The Moon

This weekend, the gibbous moon steals the show, but there's plenty more to see nearby.

Gibbous Moon and Planets

Tonight, and EVERY night, you can see not one, but TWO star clusters... right next to each other.

Double Cluster

The Alpha Persei (PER-see-EYE) Cluster is an open cluster of hot, bluish-white B-type stars. These kinds of stars are so energetic, they don't live long. So most of the B-type stars we can see in the night sky are, on the cosmic scale, practically newborns.

Alpha Persei Cluster

Hiding in the constellation Cassiopeia is a star cluster that goes by many names. Its most official name is NGC 457 for its place in Danish astronomer John Lewis Emil Dreyer's New General Catalogue.

Owl Cluster

This weekend, the gibbous moon lights up the night.

Gibbous Moon & Planets

Hiding in the constellation Cassiopeia is one of the brightest stars of its kind we've ever found.

Rho Cassiopeiae

The Perseid Meteor Shower is great not only because it falls among the warmest nights of the year, so you don't really have to bundle up to see it. But also because it's one of the most frequent showers, producing up to 110 meteors per hour at its peak. That's a meteor almost every thirty seconds.

Perseid Meteor Shower

WFYI's Matt Pelsor is an astronomy geek. He loves observing the stars, planets and other celestial objects that fill our night sky. With Matt's help, you'll never miss another streaking comet, partial eclipse or harvest moon.

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Weekend Sky Report

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