It’s often hard in the mornings to tell what is going to be a fantastic sunset, but by late afternoon, the presence of clouds promise an intriguing sky canvas. The best place to go skywatching is from the Zinder Hilltop - a small height situated outside of town, on the way north to Tanout and Eden’s field station. As we had visitors, I took Inger for a ride and drove out to watch the ...

... per second) – higher than many other meteors.  "Such speeds tend to produce meteors with hues of white, blue, aquamarine and even green," says Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist.   How to watch  The best viewing will be in rural areas. Get out of town if you can. If you have local lights, scout a location in advance where the lights are blocked ...

... kilometers per second) – higher than many other meteors. "Such speeds tend to produce meteors with hues of white, blue, aquamarine and even green," says Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist. How to watch The best viewing will be in rural areas. Get out of town if you can. If you have local lights, scout a location in advance where the lights are blocked by a building, tree ...

Shooting stars, shrieking astronomers and snail orgies.  After reading that this year’s Leonid meteor shower was going to be the most spectacular since 1998, I decided it was time I did the skywatching thing and went to see some shooting stars for myself.  As it happened, I wasn’t the only one with that idea.  The

... 39;s different. somehow today feels no different from an ordinary day. i'm contented with doing simple things, meeting people and being satisfied. my wishlist: (just so cause everyone has one) going on a picnic and skywatching kite flying at tamps baking and decorating cupcakes having a quiet dinner steamboat while it's raining star gazing going to sentosa and going for the luge ride ...

... per second) – higher than many other meteors. "Such speeds tend to produce meteors with hues of white, blue, aquamarine and even green," says Joe Rao, SPACE.com's skywatching columnist. How to watch The best viewing will be in rural areas. Get out of town if you can. If you have local lights, scout a location in advance where the lights are blocked by a building, ...

... flyby of many towns and cities, when Atlantis and ISS soar through the night sky side by side—a fantastic sight. Check the Simple Satellite Tracker: SPACE WEATHER FLYBYSIn Pacifica, the double-flyby times are 5:10 p.m. on Thursday (NNW) and 5:32 p.m. on Friday (NNW). Check the link above for any further sightings and to sign up for other satellite/space alerts. Happy skywatching, space fans!

... in the garden are dying back and the weather is getting colder, we gardeners have to look elsewhere for beauty and sustenance to keep our spirits up. With me, pleasure is often to be found in skywatching. At the beginning of November, just after we had changed the clocks, we had a succession of stunning sunsets which lasted over a few nights. Fiery Sunset The intense beauty never fails to takes ...

... FIELDFARE was sitting. A MEADOW PIPIT that flew over calling was the first seen this month and 14 LINNETS flew over towards their roost site at the tree nursery. I waited around, and did some skywatching, but all I saw was a single of CORMORANT, and HERRING GULL. As sky watched, I noticed the KESTREL hunting around the Greenhouses, as it does most days, and a little later few PIED WAGTAILS ...

... a few degrees Fahrenheit keep you from seeing the night show that NASA considers the "best meteor shower of 2009." The shower (nearly) ends a stellar year for skywatching on a high note—which is appropriate, given that 2009 is the International Year of Astronomy. Meteor showers and plenty of other space-related phenomena captured cyberspace imagination this year. See entire article ...

... "Depending on how dark your location is, and how much of the sky you can see, meteors may streak into view that night at an average rate of one or two per minute," said SPACE.com's Skywatching Columnist Joe Rao. Bright future Geminds are bits of debris left in space by a strange object called 3200 Phaethon. First thought to be an asteroid, 3200 Phaethon is now classified as a dead ...