This month the Sky at Night is focusing all its attention on one object M51 aka The Whirlpool Galaxy. Sitting approximately 30 million light years from Earth, this spectacular spiral galaxy was ...

but it requires a dark sky and dark-adapting your eyes for about 10-20 minutes. Galaxy-gaze in the week before the new moon, when post-sunset skies are darkest, which means July 28-August 7 ...