20 July 2021 Hazy Nights with the Thunder Moon Scattered moonlight and smoke from distant wildfires subdue the views of the summer sky...
13 July 2021 Reflections on a distant journey, and clusters in the summer sky Where were you 52 years ago?...
06 July 2021 A Planetary Dance in Twilight, and Beware of the Scorpion! The Moon, Venus, and Mars hold court after sunset, and Scorpius graces the southern sky...
22 June 2021 A Honey Moon, Apsides, and Mars Flies Through the Beehive June's Full Moon, Earth at Aphelion, and what to look for as the nights get longer...
15 June 2021 Marking the Summer Solstice (We've been at it for a long time!) The summer solstice was perhaps the most important day in the calendars of ancient cultures, judging by what they left behind...
08 June 2021 A Dawn Eclipse, Then a Jump Into the Whirlpool An unusual dawn solar eclipse, and a journey to a splendid galaxy...
01 June 2021 Seeing the Strongman's Stars The constellation Hercules is a good measure of the darkness of the sky, and it has some really cool things to see...
25 May 2021 Twilight Sights For Summer Nights Just what is twilight, anyway, and can I see anything when it's ongoing?...
18 May 2021 A Lunar Eclipse...For Some of Us! About half the nation gets a total lunar eclipse at dawn...