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Night sky July 2026: What you can see tonight
Space • • science
Key Points:
- The night sky throughout early to late July offers numerous celestial highlights including bright stars, constellations, planets, and special events like meteor showers and comet appearances, accessible with the naked eye, binoculars, or telescopes.
- Key events include the visibility of the Summer Triangle and Albireo double star on July 1, the Great Globular Cluster M13 in Hercules on July 2, the Milky Way core and Lagoon Nebula near Sagittarius on July 3, and a Mars-Uranus conjunction on July 4.
- Notable lunar observations include the Apollo 11 landing site near the Sea of Tranquility on July 20, the Ptolemaeus Trio craters on July 21, the Straight Wall lunar scarp on July 22, and the lunar ray systems of Tycho and Copernicus on July 25.
- Meteor showers to watch are the Southern Delta Aquariids peaking around July 29 with moonlight interference, and the Alpha Capricornids on July 30 known for bright fireballs visible even with moonlight.
- Additional highlights include the new moon and early Perseid meteors on July 14, Venus-Regulus pairing on July 9, the Wild Duck Cluster (M11) on July 18, and Saturn's return to the evening sky with its rings opening up on July 31.
