Scruton Sky at Night

The night sky is getting darker! Darkness is broken down into Civil, Nautical and Astronomical ‘periods’, which vary over the year.

Comets/Meteors – The ‘Perseid’ meteor shower will ‘peak’ around the 11 – 13th August.

A Total Eclipse of the Sun and a UK Partial Eclipse

Orion continues its dominance, but Leo begins to dominate in the south.

Websites recommendations, Constellations, Planets, The Moon

Light pollution of our sky is measured on the ‘Bortle Scale’, a score of 1 being the darkest sky through to 9 for an inner city. Scruton scores 4.

Clear night skies in December will bring a few things for us to enjoy.

Watch out for the Leonid Meteor Shower throughout most of November (at its peak on the 18 Nov) between midnight and dawn

Whilst there is always something happening in the night skies, March will be relatively quiet from a viewing point.

There are planets-a-plenty throughout 2022 and in February, Uranus, the seventh planet from the Sun, will be visible in the night sky above the first-quarter Moon on the 7th of the month.