July highlights

Your guide to the night sky this month

The big three

The top sights to observe or image this month

The planets

Our celestial neighbourhood in July

The night sky – July

Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart

Moonwatch

July’s top lunar feature to observe

Comets and asteroids

Asteroid 9 Metis will brighten favourably over the course of the month

Star of the month

Kaus Meridionalis, a bow star of Sagittarius

Binocular tour

Our roundup of wide-field gems includes the Summer Beehive and Barnard’s Star

The sky guide challenge

Can you observe and capture the distant dwarf planet Pluto throughout the month?

Deep-sky tour

This month we take in sights in the middle of the constellation of Aquila, the Eagle