The moon will be only 61% illuminated and not quite so dazzling, making this upcoming occultation easy to see and enjoy.

The zodiacal light shines in the evening as the Moon reaches Last Quarter and skims past Spica and Antares in the sky this ...

Venus, Jupiter, and Mars dominate the sky. Catch your last views of Saturn as early in the month, the Moon passes in front of ...

Why is Mars so bright this week? Does it really look red? When was it occulted by the moon? Here’s everything you need to know about Mars at opposition this week. Go outside after dark and look ...

Lunar occultations are often used by astronomers to measure the moon’s position and to study the characteristics of the occulted stars or planets. North County photographer Vladimir Medvinsky ...

On Jan. 13, the first full moon of the year, the “Wolf Moon,” dramatically occulted Mars, moving across to hide the red planet for around an hour as seen from North America. Mars was about 266 ...

no information upon the punts on the moon's limb at which occulted stirs will disappear and reappear, no warning of the effects which change of geographical position will produce in some phenomena ...

The Quadrantid meteor shower peaked on Jan. 3, The moon occulted, or passed in front of, Mars on Jan. 13 and Venus and Saturn came within just a "couple of finger widths' distance" apart in the ...

A week later, on February 7, the club will run two livestreams from two observatories in Moray to showcase Mars grazing the Moon. A graze event occurs when a star or planet is not completely occulted ...