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Tour January's Sky! | December 30th, 2010
The New Year opens with a partial solar eclipse, a great meteor shower, and a canopy of bright stars and planets overhead.
Saturn's New Bright Storm
A massive new storm in the ringed planet's northern hemisphere is bright enough to see in small telescopes.
Meteor Showers in 2011
Sky & Telescope predicts that 2011's best meteor showers should be the Quadrantids in January and — maybe — an unusual outburst by the normally meek Draconids in October.
Quadrantid Meteors: Fire over Ice
Early January brings frigid northern weather — and one of the year's very best meteor showers.
Bright Prospects for Comet Elenin?
A newfound visitor from the solar system's icy fringe could brighten a millionfold by mid-September 2011 and become a pretty sight in the predawn sky.
Solstice Eclipse
Winter in the Northern Hemisphere was heralded by a glorious total lunar eclipse.
A Sky-High Lunar Eclipse
For all of North America, the full Moon has a total eclipse high overhead late on the night of December 20-21.
It's Geminid Time!
What many skywatchers consider the year's richest and most reliable meteor shower peaks this year on the morning of December 14th.
Revival on Jupiter Continues
The King of Planets was missing one of its signature dark belts last February, but it's gradually returning to view.
Tour December's Sky! | November 30th, 2010
One of the grand tales of celestial mythology is playing out overhead during December evenings. Host: S&T's Kelly Beatty. (6.5MB MP3 download: running time: 7m 00s)
Jupiter's Lost Belt Reviving?
A sudden bright storm has erupted in the latitude of Jupiter's South Equatorial Belt. It's expected to be the first of a series of rapid changes in the days ahead, leading to a reappearance of the missing dark belt.
Encounters with Comet Hartley 2
Comet Hartley 2 comes back into moonless view around the morning of November 1st — in time for the spacecraft encounter on November 4th!
How Dark Are Your Skies?
Take part in this year's Great World Wide Star Count, and you'll be joining thousands of other "citizen scientists" in raising dark-sky awareness around the globe.
A Deluge of Draconids?
Heavy downpours — and a nearly full Moon, unfortunately — are forecast for next year's Draconid meteor shower.
Deep-Sky Wonders Again
The November 2010 Deep-Sky Wonders column is rich enough to keep an experienced observer busy for many nights.
Go Ahead: Observe the Moon
You can gawk, study, sketch, image, or just howl. No matter how you do it, head outside on September 18th to celebrate International Observe the Moon Night.
S&T's New Single-Issue Magazine
Sky & Telescope has just produced a slim but extremely useful publication.
Tour September's Sky! | August 27th, 2010
Venus clings to the horizon in the west just after sunset, while mighty Jupiter rises in the east. Find out how to spot them — and much more! Host: S&T's Kelly Beatty. (6MB MP3 download: running time: 6m 17s)
Another Flash on Jupiter!
Japanese observer Masayuki Tachikawa appears to have captured another impact on Jupiter, the second one in the past three months.
Stellafane at its Best
There's star parties and star parties — and then there's Stellafane. Inaugurated in 1926, the Stellafane Convention is probably the longest-running star party in North America, if not the world.
