I pick out North America’s celestial highlights for the week ahead (which also applies to northern hemisphere mid-northern latitudes).

Just east of Bootes hangs Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown, set off by its brightest star, Alphecca (also called ... Low in the south, the sinuous form of Scorpius scrapes the horizon as ...

In this episode, Dave Eicher invites you to go out and catch the Moon as it passes by Antares, the brightest star in the constellation Scorpius. This pairing will happen in the hours near dawn on the ...

Every evening it sinks lower, along with its longtime companion Spica, the brightest star in Virgo. Saturn comes out in the south, between the Teapot of Sagittarius to the east and Scorpius to the ...