In Vineyard Skies
On Monday evening, the skies were perfect for standing near the surf at South Beach in Edgartown and hoping to watch a rocket launching hundreds of...
A thin crescent moon appears low in the southwestern sky tomorrow night. The New Moon was yesterday.
The moon appears amid the light of dusk, visible...
Crescent Moon
You won’t see the moon this coming week unless you are a very earlier riser. It rises in the east around 3 a.m. in the zodiacal...
The brightest planet in our morning sky has disappeared, or is about to. Venus is so low in the southeastern sky at dawn, you probably can’t find it...
There will be a lunar eclipse at dawn on Wednesday morning. This won’t be the most visible eclipse, but for those who are up in the predawn hour,...
The crescent moon moves through the southern constellations Libra and Scorpius this weekend. These two constellations are low in the southern sky,...
The first day of autumn is Monday. Fall arrives when the high noon sun crosses the earth’s equator at precisely 10:29 p.m., Eastern Standard Time....
On Sunday night the gibbous moon appears in the zodiacal constellation Taurus. The moon and constellation rise in the east well after sunset, at...
It is hard to believe that the harvest moon approaches. This is the full moon poets love. Next Tuesday, the Harvest Moon rises in the east over...
Two planets and the moon will form a triangle in the southwestern sky on Sunday night. Watch as Mars and Saturn, which are already close together,...
High above the crowds in Oak Bluffs Friday night, there will be rockets with red, blue and yellow glare. It will be a royal display.
This month there are two pairs of planets moving through our skies. In the early evening, you can see that the red planet Mars appears close to the...
