Thursday, March 02, 2023

Today: High in the southeast this evening, starting near 7 o’clock, a waxing Gibbous Moon shines just below a pair of stars, quite fittingly known as the Twins, or Gemini. As one of the zodiac constellations, the Moon tracks through these stars every 27 days and...

Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Today: The Full “Sturgeon” Moon runs low across the southern skies. The Moon gets its name from the large fish found in the Great Lakes and other large bodies of water, which were easier to catch in August. European settlers sometimes knew this as the “Corn” Moon....

Wednesday, March 1, 2023

Venus and Jupiter appear stunningly close in the evening twilight, their closest pass to each other for the next few years. You should start to see them just before 6 o’clock, getting more and more dramatic as the darkness deepens through the next hour, though...

Wednesday, March 01, 2023

Today: Venus and Jupiter appear stunningly close in the evening twilight, their closest pass to each other for the next few years. You should start to see them just before 6 o’clock, getting more and more dramatic as the darkness deepens through the next hour,...

Tuesday, February 28, 2023

A stunning planetary encounter is underway in the western skies. In the twilight near 6 o’clock, our two brightest planets, Jupiter and Venus, are delightfully close, with the less brilliant Jupiter appearing above Venus tonight. Venus’s orbit, and the...

Monday, February 27, 2023

This evening’s First Quarter Moon experiences yet another rendezvous with our neighboring planet Mars, starting high in the south near 6:15 as darkness deepens. They edge a bit closer as they slide to due west at 10:20 PM, not setting in the northwest until...