May ’24 – Rick’s Picks

Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: planet watchers are in for a boring month, as their quarry largely disappear from both the morning and evening sky. The evening’s last holdouts, Jupiter and...

June ’24 Rick’s Picks

Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing  All month: morning people continue their selfish monopolization of solar system observing this month, with Mercury (which will reach superior conjunction on June 14) being...

July ’24 – Rick’s Picks

Transient Events That Can Give Us a Good Enough Reason to Get Outside and Do a Little Observing All month: the morning people begin to release their hold on the planets, as Venus now joins Mercury as an evening star, beginning a sunset apparition that will extend into...