Meteor Shower Calendar: Peak Dates, Rates and Moonlight
A shower-by-shower guide to the year's major meteor showers, with the next peak dates, realistic hourly counts and how much the Moon will get in the way.
Category: Night Sky
Eclipses, meteor showers, auroras, comets and visible planets: what you can see, when to look and where, with times in UTC and US time zones.
How to See the Milky Way: Best Months, Dark Skies and Settings
The bright center of our galaxy rises over the southern horizon on summer nights. Here is when to go, how dark the sky must be and how to photograph it with a phone.