The thin Moon passes Venus low in the west in bright twilight this week. And Mars remains shining near Castor and Pollux high overhead after dark.

What a difference a month makes! The lengthening days, together with a switch to daylight time, mean that the evening constellations are changing rapidly. So use this easy-to-follow audio tour to figure out what's what. Host: S&T's Kelly Beatty. (6.5MB MP3 download: running time: 6m 52s)

Compact, convenient, inexpensive, yet amazingly detailed, Sky & Telescope's Pocket Sky Atlas is a runaway favorite among stargazers.

Globe at Night, an effort to measure light pollution around the world, runs from March 3-16, 2010. Will you help meet this year's target of 15,000 more participants?

The zodiacal light is on its best display in the Northern Hemisphere on moonless evenings from February through April.

Vesta was at opposition on February 18, 2010, and it shines at magnitude 7 or brighter through mid-May.

Mars is receding from Earth, but it's still a fine, though small, target for telescopes.

Spectacular Saturn is now rising shortly after dark. Click here to find printable data on the positions of Saturn's rings and planets.

Uranus and Neptune are easy to find with the aid of the charts in this article.

Here are some handy reference works for people who love to observe double stars and want to expand their horizons.

On July 11th, a lot of ocean and a few tiny bits of land will experience a Moon-blackened Sun. But getting to the Moon's shadow will be a challenge.

Everyone loves to watch "shooting stars" blaze across the sky. Sky & Telescope predicts that 2010's best meteor showers should be the Perseids in August and the Geminids in December.

The first year of the new decade features four eclipses, two solars and two lunars. You'll want water wings to see the total solar eclipse on July 11th, which crosses only a few tiny bits of land. December's complete lunar coverup is the first in nearly three years.

Thousands of telescopes are given and received as gifts during the holidays. But once you've assembled your new treasure, then what? The editors of Sky & Telescope have created a special section of easy-to-grasp introductory skywatching articles just for you!

This famous recurrent nova has just leapt from 18th to 8th magnitude overnight. Astronomers worldwide were waiting.