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Welcome to the April night sky. We are now officially into springtime and the constellations of winter like Taurus, Orion and Canis Major are all sinking in the west at

Welcome to the August night sky. At nightfall this month, Jupiter is the only bright planet visible, still close to the red giant star Antares in the constellation of Scorpius.

Welcome to the February night sky.  Traditionally, this month is cold and damp in Portugal but frost is rare at our latitudes, unlike the rest of northern Europe where subzero temperatures

Welcome to the March night sky. This is the month when the Sun moves into the northern hemisphere of the sky, and it marks the beginning of spring for us

Welcome to the January night sky. On the first day of the month, just after sunset over in the southwest, the brilliant planet Venus is seen, and it is the

This is the month when the constellations of summer vanish from view to be replaced with those of the deep dark winter. The first sign of this is when you