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- December 26, 2025
What will you see in the sky in 2026? Learn where the planets will be in 2026 and when meteor showers & eclipses will take place. The High Point 2026 Astronomical Calendar is your guide to the night sky for every month of the year. Download your free...
- December 06, 2023
What will you see in the sky in 2024? Learn where the planets will be in 2024 and when solar eclipses, meteor showers & eclipses of the Moon will take place. The High Point 2024 Astronomical Calendar is your guide to the night sky for every month of the...
- December 09, 2024
What will you see in the sky in 2025? Learn where the planets will be in 2025 and when meteor showers & eclipses will take place. The High Point 2025 Astronomical Calendar is your guide to the night sky for every month of the year. Download your free...
- December 07, 2022
What will you see in the sky in 2023? Learn where the planets will be in 2023 and when solar eclipses, meteor showers & eclipses of the Moon will take place. The High Point 2023 Astronomical Calendar is your guide to the night sky for every month of the...
- January 01, 2020
Every year brings its own celestial highlights and 2020 promises to provide us with some outstanding sights. From close encounters with Venus, a particularly favorable opposition of Mars, penumbral lunar eclipses and a rare conjunction of Jupiter and...
- January 01, 2021
While not a great year for the major meteor showers, 2021 promises its fair share of lunar and planetary encounters. Whether you’re a morning or evening observer, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to see Mercury and Venus, Mars will pass by the Pleiades...
- January 01, 2022
2022 began with Mercury, Jupiter, and Saturn huddled together in the evening twilight, and even Mercury made a brief appearance with Venus and Mars in the predawn sky in the last days of February. In May we had the first of two total lunar eclipses in...
- June 07, 2024
Do you struggle to tell the difference between a waxing and waning gibbous? Was your last imaging session interrupted by a lunar light show? Trying to guess when and where the Moon will make an appearance can feel like playing a poorly coordinated game...
- June 14, 2022
The Moon isn’t always the consistent companion we expect -- at times it’s clearly seen in the evening sky, while on other occasions it appears ghostly gray against the pale blue of the morning or afternoon. Careful observation reveals a pattern to its...
- January 09, 2026
Astronomy is an incredibly rewarding hobby. Whether it be finally seeing your favorite planet through the lens of a telescope or putting together a complicated astrophotography set up to take breathtaking images, there is a lot to love about astronomy...
- November 02, 2022
The Moon doesn’t have any light of its own, but (like the Earth) it reflects the light of the Sun. It takes the Moon about 27 days to complete an orbit of the Earth, and as it moves, sunlight strikes its surface. Half of the Moon’s surface is illuminated...
- June 09, 2022
If there’s one thing that draws almost every observer, with or without a telescope, it’s the Moon. It’s understandable; it’s frequently easily seen in the evening sky and, with its changing phases, it’s been an object of fascination for millennia. Nowadays...
- July 10, 2022
In most years, there are 12 full moons, one for each month with each full moon having its own name. Most of these names originated in Europe or from the Native Americans, with the names being chosen to reflect the changes in the natural world that occur...
- April 11, 2022
We’ve all heard of a blue moon. Whether it’s because someone has said “once in a blue moon” or because a “blue moon” was said to be happening that month, the term has become part of our everyday language. But what does it really mean? How did it originate...
- February 28, 2025
When it comes to astronomy, there are few events that can rival an eclipse. But why do eclipses happen? What happens during a total lunar eclipse?
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