The Urban Astronomer

During 2008 I have found myself captivated by close groupings of the inner planets (Mercury and Venus) with other planets and the Moon. This...

Circumpolar stars are those stars that are nearest the north star Polaris . These stars are in a special category because they are always vi...

Venus and Jupiter will have a conjunction at the beginning of the month of December. What is a conjunction? There are many uses of the term...

This month offers a great opportunity to dig out that old telescope that you've rarely used and put it to work. Jupiter and Venus are pu...

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...