Everyone's favorite lunar celebration will be held on September 19, 2026. What will you do to celebrate our Moon?

The Astronomical League produces monthly star maps in both English and Spanish. We have mirrored downloadable copies of the latest guides inside.

Find all Toolkit Manuals in one place with all of the activities in the original Toolkits listed in one place

Fall and winter months bring longer nights, and these earlier evenings mean that even the youngest astronomers can get some serious stargazing in. One of the handiest things you can teach a budding young astronomer is how to measure the sky - and if you haven't yet learned yourself, it's easier than you think! Discover some elegant tricks for measuring the night sky inside.

Membership in the Night Sky Network program offers clubs and individuals a few key benefits! Check them out inside.

NASA's Night Sky Notes are free articles designed for your club's newsletter, website, and other local papers and newsletters, featuring stargazing and NASA science to share with your communities. Find the latest articles — and archives — here!

This month, we celebrate 10 years of detecting gravitational waves with LIGO! Learn how you can get involved with October's Night Sky Notes!

Summer skies bring glorious views of our own Milky Way galaxy and the Great Rift to observers blessed with dark skies. Learn more about the Great Rift and the stories it contains in this month's Night Sky Notes!

International Observe the Moon Night is on October 4th this year- but you can observe the Moon whenever it's up, day or night! Find out more about these unconventional techniques inside this article.

Scorpius is sizzling in the summer sky! Observe the heart of the scorpion, and learn a bit about this constellation from a different perspective in July's Night Sky Notes!

This Toolkit provides activities and demonstrations that explore the Sun and its powerful magnetic fields, how these fields generate the features we observe, and how the Sun's magnetic activity affects our way of life and technologies here on Earth.

Celebrate the summer solstice here on Earth, and learn about seasons on other worlds in June's Night Sky Notes!

Exoplanet observation has come a long way since the 19th century. Learn about three methods used to hunt for other worlds in May's Night Sky Notes, originally published in 2015.

Planets, stars, galaxies, and other objects in space give off a wide range of visible and invisible forms of light. Because different forms of light have different characteristics, no single observatory can detect all wavelengths. Learn about the electromagnetic spectrum in April's Night Sky Notes!

March is the start of spring in the Northern Hemisphere; with that, the hunt for Messier objects can begin! Learn how to spot a handful of these deep-sky objects in March's Night Sky Notes!

Download this 2025 poster to share in celebrations from eclipses to the International Observe the Moon Night - and many more in between! 

Light pollution hinders astronomers and impacts many others. Learn how to measure and reduce it with smart lighting and community education efforts inside February's Night Sky Notes article, originally published in November 2018.

January 2025 will be an excellent opportunity to spot Mars and some of its details with a medium-sized telescope. Be sure to catch these three events this month.

This year, Night Sky Network celebrated its 20 year anniversary! Learn about the history of this project in this special article.

Jupiter is bright and easy to spot from our vantage point on Earth, helped by its massive size and banded, reflective cloud tops. Find out how you can see it for yourself inside December's Night Sky Notes article, originally published February 2023.