Scruton Sky at Night
by Peter Williams
Scruton Sky at Night – September 2024
The night sky is getting darker! Darkness is broken down into Civil, Nautical and Astronomical ‘periods’, which vary over the year.
Scruton Sky at Night – August 2024
Comets/Meteors – The ‘Perseid’ meteor shower will ‘peak’ around the 11 – 13th August.
Scruton Sky at Night – April 2024
A Total Eclipse of the Sun and a UK Partial Eclipse
Scruton Sky at Night – March 2024
Orion continues its dominance, but Leo begins to dominate in the south.
Scruton Sky at Night – February 2024
Websites recommendations, Constellations, Planets, The Moon
Scruton Sky at Night – January 2024
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.
Sky at Night – December 2023
Clear night skies in December will bring a few things for us to enjoy.
Sky at Night – November 2023
Watch out for the Leonid Meteor Shower throughout most of November (at its peak on the 18 Nov) between midnight and dawn
Scruton Sky at Night – March 2022
Whilst there is always something happening in the night skies, March will be relatively quiet from a viewing point.
Scruton Sky at Night – February 2022
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.