The Urban Astronomer

The waning and waxing Moon create beautiful close encounters with the planets in the coming days. In the pre-dawn skies the ever-thinning wa...

A comet is making its way across the Solar System and is reaching its best viewing in the next few days. Comet Lulin was discovered in 2007...

Face south in the early to mid-evening and Orion is high in the southern sky. It is easy to identify because of the distinctive "belt...

Venus is a remarkable object in the evening sky. It has been steadily brightening throughout January and will continue through February as i...

Many of the brightest stars in the sky are located on or very near to the Ecliptic , the path across the sky that the Sun, Moon and planets ...

I never tire of sitting in a domed room experiencing something to do with the universe, and when on the road I try to check out the local pl...

400 years ago Galileo crafted a telescope and pointed it up at the sky. He might not have been the first person ever to do this, but he was ...