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Sky Guides

Space Series

A black and white star guide

2026

Photograph of a glass plate negative depicting a chart of Milky Way.

Sky Guide June 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Lantern slide of a meteor flight.

Sky Guide May 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

A close up of a glass plate slide showing a thin crescent moon.

Sky Guide April 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide March 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Photograph of a lantern slide depicting a black and white drawing of Orion made of glass and paper.

Sky Guide February 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Black and white image of the great nebulae in Orion, space sky showing stars and a wispy bright cluster in the centre (Orion).

Sky Guide January 2026

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

2025

A close up photograph of a glass plate slide showing black and white photo of 'sun's disk (spectroheliogram)', used for teaching astronomy.

Sky Guide December 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide November 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide October 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide September 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Zoomed in image of a glass plate slide of the 'Milky Way about M8 Sagittarius'

Sky Guide August 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Glass plate slide, Southern Cross & coal sack

Sky Guide July 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide June 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Zoomed in image of a lantern slide graphing the meteor radiant point in Leo.

Sky Guide May 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Southern Cross' plate negative c.1900–1950

Sky Guide April 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Crescent Moon

Sky Guide March 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

600 Kilometre Segment of Longest Channel on Venus.

Sky Guide February 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Scanned visual of a graph map of Mars within an open book.

Sky Guide January 2025

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

2024

Lantern slide of a meteor flight.

Sky Guide December 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

A rectangular black and white silver gelatin glass plate positive showing six images of Jupiter. The original storage envelope accompanies the glass plate.

Sky Guide November 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Comet C2023-A3, or Tsuchinshan-ATLAS

Sky Guide October 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Small Magellanic Cloud in space.

Sky Guide September 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

A dense galaxy cluster.

Sky Guide August 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

X-rays stream off the sun in this first picture of the sun, overlaid on a picture taken by NASA Solar Dynamics Observatory SDO, taken by NASA NuSTAR. The field of view covers the west limb of the sun.

Sky Guide July 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Saturn's rings diagram of inclination.

Sky Guide June 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Lantern slide of meteor and star trails.

Sky Guide May 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide April 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide March 2024

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Photograph showing the moon’s surface taken in black and white.

Sky Guide February 2024

Sydney Observatory’s monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide January 2024

Sydney Observatory’s monthly guide to the southern sky

2023

Sky Guide December 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Detail of a diagram showing a comets orbit

Sky Guide November 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Glass plate slide of a drawing of a meteorite shower

Sky Guide October 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide September 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide August 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Sky Guide July 2023

Sydney Observatory's Monthly Guide to the Southern Sky

Sky Guide June 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Cluster of stars.

Sky Guide May 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

Black and white photograph of a total solar eclipse. Black circle in the centre with white glow around it, remainder of the image is black.

Sky Guide April 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

A black and white star guide

Sky Guide March 2023

Sydney Observatory's monthly guide to the southern sky

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