Jamie is an experienced science, technology and travel journalist and stargazer who writes about exploring the night sky, solar and lunar eclipses, moon-gazing, astro-travel, astronomy and space exploration. He is the editor of WhenIsTheNextEclipse.com and author of A Stargazing Program For Beginners, and is a senior contributor at Forbes.
will help you see some of the night sky’s fainter objects. However, the unaided eye is enough to learn its
Look to the left of Mars, and you'll get eyes-on with the Pleiades, a beautiful open cluster of young blue-ish stars about 440 light-years away. It's also called the"Seven Sisters," though most stargazers can see only six with the unaided eye. To appreciate the brightness of the Pleiades properly, look slightly to the side of it, thus using the more light-sensitive part of your eye. Return at the same time later this week and you'll see Mars lower in the sky.
Today, the moon will appear above the east-southeast in the late afternoon, while about 78% of the moon is illuminated, making it very easy to see in a clear sky. It will rise about 50 minutes later each day until Saturday when it will rise as a full moon close to sunset. The pre-full moon always looks fabulous during twilight. On Wednesday evening, July 17 in the Americas, the bright, waxing gibbous moon will shine a few finger-widths to the left of Scorpius' brightest star.
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