2025 Guide to the Night Sky Southern Hemisphere: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Australia, New Zealand and South Africa

A comprehensive handbook to the planets, stars and constellations visible from the southern hemisphere. 6 pages for each month covering JanuaryDecember 2025.

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 2025

Seasonal charts

Details of dark sky sites

Details of objects and events you might see in 2025

Diagrams of notable events visible from Australia, and some for New Zealand and South Africa

Also available: A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above Britain and Ireland and A month-by-month guide to exploring the skies above North America.