06 January 2021 Happy New Year! The Full Cold Moon (and Orion) rising, Ocean City, Maryland, 2020 December 29HDR image made with a Canon EOS Rebel SL2 DSLR and EF-S 18-55mm zoom lens @ 18mm, f/8.The new year finds the Moon waning in the morning sky, coursing her way through the rising constellations of spring. Last Quarter occurs...
23 December 2020 Our Annual Holiday "Sky", in Rhyme We take a break for the winter holidays and pay homage (?) to the most famous poet of the season...
15 December 2020 When a Planet Meets a Planet Comin' Through the Sky Jupiter and Saturn meet up in their closest visible conjunction since the year 1226!...
08 December 2020 Catch a Falling Star, and Look For One That Winks At You The annual Gemind meteor shower peaks Dec. 13-14, and the "Demon Star" fades...
01 December 2020 The Long and the Short of Winter's Nights A look at the phenomena surrounding the winter solstice...
24 November 2020 Thankful for the Cornucopia A bright star symbolizes our annual Thanksgiving tradition...
17 November 2020 Tales of Bears and Maidens A look at the skylore of the Big Dipper and the Pleiades...
10 November 2020 How Many Stars Can You Fit Into a Square? Counting stars for science, and how to find the most distant thing you can see with your unaided eyes...
27 October 2020 A Howlin' Halloween Hunter's (Blue?) Moon October's second Full Moon falls on Halloween, a cross-quarter day. We set our clocks back to Standard Time on November 1...