2026 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

by Topalovic, Radmila; Ford, Dominic

• ISBN13: 9780008747688
• ISBN10: 0008747687
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-11-25
• Publisher: Collins Geo

Summary

A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering January–December 2026.

Diagrams drawn for the latitude of southern Australia, but including events visible from New Zealand and South Africa.

Written and illustrated by astronomical experts.

Content includes:

• Advice on where to start looking
• Easy-to-use star maps for each month with descriptions of what to see
• Special, detailed charts for positions of planets, minor planets and comets in 2026
• Seasonal charts
• Details of dark sky sites
• Details of objects and events you might see in 2026
• Diagrams of notable events visible from Australia, and some for New Zealand and South Africa

Author Biography

Radmila Topalovic is Astronomy programmes officer at the Royal Observatory in Greenwich. She holds a PhD in space dust.

Dr. Dominic Ford is a Senior Research Associate at the Institute of Astronomy, Cambridge UK, where he works on the European Space Agency's PLATO mission. He previously led the development of data-analysis software for spectroscopic surveys of the Milky Way at Lund Observatory, Sweden. He has worked on many science communication and amateur astronomy projects. He founded the website In-The-Sky.org, an online guide to what is visible in the night sky, which can be tailored to your exact location on Earth. He previously managed the British Astronomical Association's website and built an online image archive which now holds over 80,000 images of the night sky. In 2022, Dominic was awarded the British Astronomical Association's Horace Dall Medal for the development of software for amateur astronomers.