Watch the Moon Hide Jupiter This Week
This Wednesday morning look towards the east an hour before your local sunrise to catch a breaktakingly close encounter between our Moon and the largest planet in the solar system. The moon itself will be an eye-catching, thin crescent. If you happen to be situated in Canada, the contiguous US, Mexico, Greenland, northern Scandinavia, or […]
The Night Sky This Week May 15 2023
This week we highlight an eye-catching line-up that involves Mars and the moon has a super-close encounter with Jupiter and even hides the planet for some lucky observers.
The Night Sky This Week April 17 2023
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his picks for top skywatching picks of the week. In this episode we highlight the Moon meeting planets and stars, and the annual Lyrid meteor shower and explain what it is and how best to watch it from the city or the country-side.
Watch Moon Hide Mars!
The Griffith Observatory is running a livestream of the lunar occultation of Mars as seen from Los Angeles, California on Monday January 30th. For a rundown of major sky events this week including comet ZTF, then check out my livestream here
The Night Sky This Week January 30, 2023
Join National Geographic columnist and Night Sky Guy Andrew Fazekas for his picks for top skywatching picks of the week In this episode we look at the Green comet ZTF as it makes its closest approach to Earth on February 1, 2023 and the lunar occultation of Mars.