The Urban Astronomer

Today's conversation started out 'auf Deutsch' as Renee and I chatted a bit together in German language. But then we turned our ...

Planetary Conjunction With the late onset of sunrise, many people that don't normally see the heavens in the morning are getting a g...

Crescent Moon graces Saturn After a long and glorious run in the night sky, Saturn is gradually fading into the west and will fade out o...

Stopped in at the KFOG studios to talk with Mike, Greg and Renee about the upcoming eclipse and the supermoon. Click here to listen.

Sunday September 27 we experience a total lunar eclipse visible from North America and of course here in San Francisco. This eclipse feature...

This Week Facing East The dawn sky is punctuated this week with a spectacular lineup of some of the brightest celestial objects in the ...

Late Summer is a time when the heat waves set in, giving everyone a last taste of the warmth that longer days and warming landscapes bring....

Get out and see the night sky in the company of other interested people and with amateur astronomers. That is my advice for those who say ...