Astronomy

The International Space Station will be making a few visible passes through Santa Barbara’s evening skies in early February, if the sky is clear.

Ronald shares a photo of the first new moon of 2021 that debuted on January 13.

The International Space Station will be making a few visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies in the next week, if the clouds are polite.

An edhat reader documents the next Solar Cycle for sunspots that are expected to peak in 2025.

Edhat readers share their photos of the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter on Monday evening.

Ronald shares a photo of a shooting star streaking through Orion's belt above Santa Barbara.

Chuck shares a video of the Moon occulting the planet Venus at 1:17 PM PST from Santa Barbara.

Chuck shares a shot of the International Space Station passing through the Pleiades from our point of view on Monday evening, just before it faded away into the Earth’s shadow. 

The International Space Station will be making a few visible passes through Santa Barbara’s evening skies in early December.

Edhat readers report an interesting ring around the moon.

Team Vandenberg and SpaceX are scheduled to launch the Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich satellite Saturday, Nov. 21 at 9:17 a.m., from Vandenberg Air Force Base.

The International Space Station will be making some good visible passes through Santa Barbara’s evening skies during the last half of November.

On Friday night, October 2, the Harvest Moon, made rosy by smoke from fires,  glided very close to the red planet Mars at 10:00 PM with only about 1 degree separation

The International Space Station will be making visible passes through Santa Barbara’s evening skies this weekend.

Ronald shares a photo of Jupiter getting close to the moon.

A Dos Pueblos High School student has won third place in a worldwide astrophotography competition.

The International Space Station will be making evening passes through Santa Barbara’s evening skies for the week leading up to the Autumnal Equinox.

An edhat reader shares their viewing of the Perseid Meteor Shower and an unusual aircraft pattern.

An edhat reader shares an astronomical report from the foothills of the Sierra Nevada mountains.

Fritz captured a time-lapse image of the International Space Station over our local skies on July 31.

The International Space Station will be making evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies from now into the first week of August.

Merritt shares a photo of Comet Neowise over the Santa Barbara Mission.

Ronald shares photos of Comet Neowise from different perspectives in our local skies.

[Update]: Edhat readers share photos of the passing Comet Neowise in our local skies

An edhat reader shares photos of the passing International Space Station and Comet Neowise in our local skies.

The International Space Station will make some nicely visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies over the next week.

The International Space Station transited the moon Monday morning just south of Los Alamos.

The International Space Station will make a long series of visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies for the next two weeks.

The International Space Station will make several visible evening passes through Santa Barbara’s skies over the next week.

Chuck shares a citizen science activity to keep you busy during the pandemic, observing asteroid occultations for IOTA.