Keeping Your Head in (All) the Game(s)

Sometimes we don't know what we think we know. Case in point, a blue moon. We tend to think that when a calendar month has...

I'm going to get up early the next two mornings as the full moon will be setting over Marin less than an hour before sunrise. The act...

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If you want to make an apple pie from scratch,  you must first create the universe.                                                  ...

Current scientific estimates are that there are about 200 billion stars in the Milky Way, so that means there could be at least 400 billion ...

There was a full moon visible over San Francisco Bay this morning just after dawn. Before dawn I had noticed a ever so slight glow in the c...

This is the view from my window this morning, which provides you with all the information you need about the moonset early this morning. Unf...

Last night marked the fifth night of close observation of the moon setting into or over San Francisco. One night was done without the aid of...

Just to wrap up a short series of posts on looking up to the heavens. The Perseids were really spectacular on Thursday night. About two-th...

No I did not take that picture and no I am not doing acid again. But after nearly two weeks of evening fog cover, I finally got several nig...

Tomorrow morning (Wednesday 28th) at 8:18 AM EDT [5:18 PDT] will be the exact moment of the next full moon, which means tonight will be the...

If someone hasn't already sent you these earth-from-space photographs (yes that is a real photo above). You will be getting them from se...

As I post this blog it is just a few hours until the fall equinox, for those who love precision; the event falls at 2:18 PM PDT today. At ...

Still a few days from full, a hazy moon rose over Mt. Shasta last evening. My friend was outside outfitting his mini-motor home for a late n...