• October 8 – First Quarter
  
• October 16 – Full Moon
• October 22 – Last Quarter
• October 22 – Open House at Farpoint Observatory, 7:30 pm to ? Join us!
• October 27 – General Meeting, Topeka Library, 7 pm. Join us!

Evening Sky:

• Venus – in southwest
• Mars – in south
• Saturn – in southwest
• Uranus – in east
• Neptune – in southeast

Midnight:

• Uranus – in south
• Neptune – in southwest

Morning Sky:

• Mercury – in east
• Jupiter – in east
• Uranus – in west

North to South, at 8-10 pm:

• Ursa Minor, the Little Bear, also the Little Dipper
• Cepheus, the King of Ethiopia
• Draco, the Dragon
• Lacerta, the Lizard
• Cygnus, the Swan
• Sagitta, the Arrow
• Pegasus, the Winged Horse
• Delphinus, the Dolphin
• Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer
• Aquarius, the Water Bearer
• Capricornus, the Sea-Goat

• Still LOTS of evening planets in October! Check out the planet list above. Uranus reaches its 2016 peak on the 15th, easily visible in binoculars, even visible naked-eye with deep dark adaptation, from extremely dark skies.
• If you're up in the morning twilight October 11, look for Mercury and Jupiter within a degree of each other, just above the eastern horizon.
• Best evening comet should be C/2016 A8 (LINEAR), fairly high in the southern sky, but you'll need a 8“ scope…and patience.
• The moon occults Aldebaran the night of October 18-19, from about 12:30 am to about 1:08 am, in our area.
• The Orionids (meteor shower), peak the night of October 21, unfortunately close to the full moon this year.