The Urban Astronomer

Lunar Month Begins Thanksgiving in the USA is accompanied by a young Moon,  a few days into the lunar cycle and the new lunar month. I e...

I enjoy the annual Leonids meteor shower for many reasons, not the least of which is that it is my birthday meteor shower, peaking on my bir...

The Moon and Jupiter Mornings are splendid this time of year, with plenty of darkness to make it easy to see the sky when you first get ...

Every sunrise and sunset provides a wide range of visual effects, ranging from the elongation of the disk of the Sun as it hugs the horizon...

Last night a friend asked me "what's up in space exploration and astronomy in the coming weeks?" and I wrote down this list. E...

Total Lunar Eclipse of October 8th We're in for the second of four total lunar eclipses in 2014-2015 . Next week the Full Moon slips...

Slender Moon, Mars and more For the next week, the twilight sky will feature a close alignment of two bright shiny red objects, Mars and...

Ritz Carlton Half Moon Bay Fall in the San Francisco Bay Area means clear skies and mild temperatures, and clear skies along the coast -...