Astronomy For You

The last week of October (2019) was very busy for me with planed and unplanned events that I photographed.  On Saturday evening (26th) t...

Although  I don't care too much about supermoons , I always like to see the full moon rising and this evening just 17 minutes after s...

From time to time, you hear news about a big and bright moon that has not been seen in the last ten, twenty, or even a hundred years. Such...

Oops, I did that again! After almost 19 months I was able to take again a video of the ISS passing the moon! (Here is the story of the fir...

A conjunction between the moon and any planet is a monthly event. Not rare but always a pleasure. This post will be updated with photos an...

During the last year (and the one to come) there is an occultation of Aldebaran almost every month. However none of these occultations wer...

Today (Jan 7th 2016) there was a very nice planetary trio. The moon, Venus and Saturn formed an almost equilateral triangle in the early d...

Another miss for 23-Dec-2015. Occultation seen from Europe but not from Israel. This time I just took 4 different photos and put them toge...

At first I thought it is a photo-montage, later I though it is an hoax but finally I understood that it is real and that gave me a lot to t...

One of my hobbies is to spot the new moon as early as possible. Seeing the moon and setting the months in accordance to the new moon setti...

On Sunday 28/12/2014 I finally managed to photograph the ISS crossing the moon. The timing and location must be very accurate. The moon is ...

Sometimes seeing the new moon is not that hard. When the moon is far enough from the sun (30hours old), It stays long in the sky after suns...