Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map

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Publishing The Evening Sky Map since January 2000. A free, easy-to-use 2-page monthly all-sky map & sky calendar of celestial events for sky watchers worldwide.

Adelaide, Australia skymaps.com/tesm/ Joined May 2008

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Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map @skymaps 1d

9 November 2026: New Moon at 7:01 UT (now). Start of lunation 1285.
The next few days are a great time for evening stargazing. Download The Evening Sky Map (PDF) at skymaps.com/tesm/ and enjoy exploring the Universe with your eyes, binoculars or a telescope! 🔭
#stargazing

The Evening Sky Map is a circular all-sky star chart showing constellations, the Milky Way, planets, horizon directions and deep-sky objects depicted by symbols with an accompanying legend, plus a left-column sky calendar listing lunar and planetary events and viewing times.

Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map @skymaps 3d

🌙 🌟 The waning crescent Moon will pass close to Venus over the next few hours. Best seen in the predawn sky with closest approach at 9h UT on 7 Nov'26. Lunar occultation from Antarctica, Argentina, Chile and the Falkland Islands. 🔭
More sky events at: skymaps.com/sc2611/

Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map @skymaps 6d

At 14h UT on November 4th (now) Mercury will reach inferior conjunction with the Sun. The innermost and most elusive planet begins its passage into the morning sky. 🔭
#stargazing #space
More Nov'26 sky events: skymaps.com/sc2611/

Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map @skymaps Nov 3

Daytime lunar occultation of Jupiter captured with a DwarfLab mini Smart Telescope from South Australia. The event was also observed through a C925 SCT with the Moon taking 75 seconds to fully occult Jupiter. 🔭
#stargazing
More Sky Events: skymaps.com/sc2611/

Crescent Moon showing detailed craters and surface textures with the planet Jupiter nearby against a clear blue sky.

Backyard astrophotography setup: a large telescope on a motorized mount is positioned next to a smaller Smart Scope on its own tripod in front of a dense green hedge.

Skymaps | The Evening Sky Map @skymaps Nov 2

The waning crescent Moon is currently near Jupiter (mag. –2.0). Mars is nearby. A daytime lunar occultation of Jupiter will be visible in binoculars and telescopes from Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and southern India. 🔭
More info: in-the-sky.org/news.php?id=20…