Unfortunately, as luck would have it, 2024 will see the moon ... half the speed of a typical Perseid or Leonid meteor. Many are also rather faint, with relatively few of medium brightness.

Watch a bright Moon dominate the sky, trace the Winter Hexagon, and continue enjoying the evening parade of planets in the ...

Venus: The brightest, visible in the southwest, shifts from half-full to a crescent and reaches peak brightness just after February’s full moon ... Uranus: High in the southeast, it’s visible ...

Here are the planets that will be most visible: Venus: The brightest, visible in the southwest, shifts from half-full to a crescent and reaches peak brightness just after February’s full moon.

January begins with a stunning meteor shower — the last until April — and the moon occulting the Pleiades, a half-lit Venus, and, most remarkably, a total eclipse of a bright Mars by the moon.