May 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 May
The night sky – May
Explore the celestial sphere with our Northern Hemisphere all-sky chart
Moonwatch
May’s top lunar feature to observe
Comets and asteroids
13 Egeria reaches opposition in the constellation of Libra, the Scales
Star of the month
Izar, a stunning double star situated in Boötes
Binocular tour
This month we travel from the North Celestial Pole to the North Ecliptic Pole
The sky guide challenge
Can you record the size of Mars’s disc, in the run up to opposition and beyond?
Deep-sky tour
We look for objects along the borders of the constellations Ursa Major, Draco and Boötes