Gardening by the Moon
What Is Eating Your Garden at Night? A Torchlight Guide
Most of the damage in a garden happens after dark. Slugs, snails, cutworms and vine weevils feed at night and are back under cover by morning, which is…
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Guides, sky news and viewing tips for the Moon, eclipses, meteor showers and planets
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 9 to 15, 2026
New moon falls at 1:02 AM on Monday, so this is the darkest week of November: the Moon is absent until Wednesday evening and sets before 11 PM…
Full Moon
Beaver Moon 2026: Date, Time and the Supermoon Question
The Beaver Moon of 2026 is full on Tuesday, November 24 at 14:53 UTC, which is 8:53 AM Central Standard Time, mid-morning in the Americas and late evening…
Sky Guides
How to Work Out the Moon Phase for Any Date by Hand
You can work out the Moon’s phase for any date, past or future, with one reference new moon, the length of the lunar month and a bit of…
Sky Guides
Why the Rising Moon Looks Orange (and Sometimes Red)
A rising Moon looks orange for the same reason a setting Sun does: its light reaches you through the thickest possible slice of the atmosphere, and air scatters…
Meteor Showers
Leonids Meteor Shower 2026: Peak Night and How to Watch
The Leonid meteor shower peaks on the night of Tuesday, November 17 to Wednesday, November 18, 2026, with 10 to 15 meteors an hour under a dark sky…
Sky Guides
Where the Moon Rises, and Why the Spot Moves Every Night
The Moon does not rise in the east. It rises somewhere along a stretch of the eastern horizon that is far wider than the Sun’s, and it crosses…
Gardening by the Moon
Pruning by the Moon: Tradition Versus What Trees Need
The lunar gardening tradition says to prune in the waning Moon: in the third quarter to slow a plant down and in the fourth quarter, the week before…
This Week's Sky
Night Sky This Week: November 2 to 8, 2026
This is the dark week of November: the waning crescent Moon thins from 40 percent on Monday to nothing by Sunday, rising later each morning and leaving the…