The Urban Astronomer

Winter brings out the best in the night sky. Some of the finest stars in our galaxy are concentrated in a region of the sky that shines with...

Image courtesy calaware.org  This time of year, as darkness sets in early and the cold of winter envelops the northern hemisphere, I sav...

Geminids Everyone loves a good meteor shower. And the Geminids , which peak mid-December, are one of the best each year. But all meteor ...

Jupiter, Venus, Saturn and the Moon put on a good show this week in the evening sky. To see this you will need a very good western / south...

November brings the annual Leonid meteor shower which peaks on Sunday November 17th. This year we have a second potential show, a "Mete...

On Monday November 11 we will have a chance to witness a very unique and special event, a transit of the planet Mercury across the face of o...

Autumn brings us cooler evenings and earlier sunsets, but it’s not yet too uncomfortable to go outside and gaze up into the heavens for a lo...

It's been two years since I posted on this blog. It's time to restart. Since I started this blog I moved from San Francisco, Califor...