The Urban Astronomer

Last year the US Congress made a change in daylight savings time . Rather than end in October it now carries into November. The effect of th...

Nearly 400 years ago Galileo pointed a crude telescope toward the heavens and documented three remarkable things in the sky, discoveries t...

The California Academy of Sciences reopens in a beautiful new building on Saturday September 27th. This long-awaited opening will be a majo...

Over the past many years I've made several visits to a biodynamic farm called Live Power Farm . The children at San Francisco Waldorf Sc...

The evening sky in August and September will feature a terrific display of planets, stars and the moon in an elegant dance just above the ho...

While observing in the mountains two weeks ago I saw several meteors streak across the sky. Meteors are always a joy to watch because they a...