Watching the Sky
Sky events visible to the casual observer or amateur astronomer
"Another day, another alignment of planets"
May 14, 2011
"A starry constellation of two hunting dogs is now visible in the nighttime sky."
May 14, 2011
"[The] Photopic Sky Survey was a mind-boggling undertaking: 37,440 digital exposures, taken over the course of a year from sites in North America and South Africa, … painstakingly stitched together to create a single, 5-gigapixel image."
May 13, 2011
"Saturn, the moon and a bright star team up for a night sky triangle this weekend."
May 13, 2011
"Citizen Science projects let volunteers easily contribute to active science programs."
May 12, 2011
"Over the next two weeks, the four brightest planets,
May 11, 2011
"This morning, sky watchers around the world woke up at the crack of dawn to witness a bright conjunction of Venus and Jupiter."
A solar halo photographed with the aid of a dog!
May 11, 2011
"A comet just discovered by amateur astronomer Sergey Shurpakov is diving past the sun today"
May 10, 2011
"During this month of May, four bright planets will engage in a fascinating dance with each other in the morning sky."
