The Urban Astronomer

I spent a few minutes with Irish Greg and No Name on the KFOG Morning Show talking about the view of all 5 'naked eye' planets in th...

Five Planets in the Morning The five naked-eye planets are all visible to us in the pre-dawn sky. Four of them are easy targets, with br...

  The Geminid Meteor Shower is one of the year's finest displays of meteors but you have to brave the cold to see it. The peak is Sun...

Planetary Lineup The Full Moon is a delight to see rising in the evening, but as we have long nights in November and December, I find th...

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.