Gazing into the past
…starting low in the southwest and passing almost directly overhead before vanishing low in the northeast. It’ll look like a bright white moving “star” that is not blinking. When we…
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Wave hello to people in outer space (at May 18th skywatching, Dorothea Dix Park)
…southwest to northeast between 9:26 and 9:32 p.m. At 9:29 p.m. it will pass nearly directly over your head. (Note: Although almost everyone in the eastern U.S. can see this…
Your checklist for viewing the 2018 Perseid meteor shower
…all portions of the sky. 7) Put bright devices away. Resist the urge to use your phone, tablet, or other lighted devices. In addition to pulling your attention away from…
How to find Mars in the sky
…curious to see Mars in the night sky, this is what to look for: 1) Mars is currently very bright. Now (July 27, 2018) and for a number of weeks to come, Mars…
Never agree to marry the northern lights (and other life lessons from Valentine sky stories)
…10, 2018, 8:30 p.m. Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2018, 7 p.m. AND 8:30 p.m. These shows are for adults only, please (older teens welcome). We recommend buying tickets online in advance. All…
Morehead hosts star-studded Jupiter Ball
…Senior Director of Community Relations at Cary, NC-based analytics company SAS Institute Inc., for her continued support of STEM education. Goodnight serves on a number of boards committed to education,…
Can’t get eclipse glasses? You can still view the eclipse!
…consider these other methods, too. A number of people have marveled to us about their memories of partial solar eclipses from years past where they were walking under trees and…
10 things for North Carolinians to know about the eclipse
…Moon’s shadow can experience the eclipse. For most of North Carolina, this will be only a partial solar eclipse, with the Moon never appearing to fully cover the Sun. The far southwestern…
When the Moon covers the Sun
…Credit: NASA JPL “What’s Up for May 2012” This path of totality clips a small portion of the southwest corner of North Carolina. Depending on where in North Carolina you live,…
Finding the winter hexagon (and maybe your birthday star)
…too far away. Its light takes about 800 years to reach us. So we see the star as it looked when the light left it eight hundred years ago, or…