Here is the pre-dawn sky of Friday, March 1.

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The Last Quarter Moon of January 27 will be about as high north of the ecliptic as it can get. You can see why, in this Continue reading “The Moon at Mid-Arch from Full to New”
We’re looking ahead in more than one sense: the Moon will be at its Last Quarter Continue reading “Moon Ahead!”
New Moon was on September 9 (at 18h Universal Time), so the Moon is barely above the horizon at sunset.

Saturn, Antares, the First-Quarter Moon, Jupiter, Spica, and Venus – spread across the after-sunset sky.

This weekend’s high tides won’t really be the last, but they may be Continue reading “The last high tide”
A double sky event will unfold in the night between Thursday July 26 and Friday July 27.

On Sunday evening, March 18,the two inner planets and the slender Young Moon will make a sparkling line just above the western horizon.

In the night between February 28 and March 1, the nearly Full Moon gets in front of Regulus, as seen from Continue reading “Moon and Regulus tonight”