We’re getting a great gift in our skies this holiday season with three bright planets — Saturn, Jupiter and Mars — decorating our evening skies. We also have some nice celestial conjunctions, or what ...

I am really happy with the recent rain and will gladly trade a few good observing nights for a reduced fire danger. Please ignore me if I try to predict the weather, but sometimes these monsoon ...

We’re getting a great gift in our skies this holiday season. Three bright planets decorate our evening skies; Saturn, Jupiter and Mars. We also have some nice celestial conjunctions or what I call ...

Astronomy magazine's Editor Emeritus, Dave Eicher, encourages pre-dawn observation of the zodiacal light. The zodiacal light is described as having a triangular, inverted cone-like appearance.