sky-watching

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Here are the best sky-watching events worth circling on your calendar this year.

From National Geographic • Dec. 6, 2023

In the telescope’s view, there’s something more subtle but no less staggering lurking, too, which can best be introduced via a slight sky-watching digression.

From Scientific American • Oct. 20, 2023

Those are the best predictions that meteor watchers have for the Tau Herculids, a potential celestial spectacle that has sky-watching enthusiasts eager with anticipation.

From New York Times • May 30, 2022

Tail spotting can be a soothing sky-watching habit, but its community also regards itself as a coterie of amateur detectives.

From Slate • Mar. 12, 2021

This sky-watching, and turning of night into day, will be the destruction of thy beauty, niece; and then we shall see how plenty Patroons are for husbands!

From The Water-Witch or, the Skimmer of the Seas by Cooper, James Fenimore