In The Sky This Month – January 2011

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of January 2011. … More

In The Sky This Month – December 2010

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of December 2010. … More

The current streak of consecutive nights with a meteor detection is up to 41 now. And with no storm systems … More

This morning EPOXI, the spacecraft formerly known as Deep Impact, flew within 435 miles (700 km) of the nucleus of … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of November 2010. … More

In the last ‘Meteor’ post, I was all excited about getting a clear night (Oct 25/26) to catch some Orionids. … More

Just a quick update on the status of Comet 103P/Hartley 2. This is the 3rd update on 103P (1st update … More

Comet Hartley 2 has now reached naked eye brightness for those lucky enough to observe from a dark site. For … More

This feature highlights a number of meteor showers, comets and asteroids which are visible during the month of October 2010. … More

The upcoming close approach of Comet Hartley 2 should be the cometary event of the year. If the comet behaves … More