The Urban Astronomer

Spring Sky Highlights Spring arrives on Monday March 20th and with it the ever-changing night sky with all it has to offer. The upcoming...

Penumbral Eclipse Friday evening the Moon will have a close encounter with the Earth's shadow 240,000 miles out in space. As the Moo...

Moon's Ascending and Descending Nodes Eclipses are the outcome of a chance series of alignments between three bodies: the Sun, Mo...

Pegasus and Cassiopeia While out under the night sky I frequently point out that everything we can see with the naked eye is located in ...

The first meteor shower of the year, the Quadrantids, peak on the morning of Tuesday January 3rd for those of us on the west coast of the Un...

Winter is nearly upon us, and the magical sky that arrives at the end of each year lights up the long dark night with many colorful stars, b...

Geminid Radiant in Gemini Every year there are many meteor showers that arrive on schedule , resulting from the fact that Earth travels ...

How much bigger is a Supermoon?  The natural cycles of the cosmos brings us many interesting sights in the night sky and our closest cel...