Choose a date to see selected Astronomical Events.

For Sunday-Thursday, displays events occuring over the next 2 days. For Friday, displays events for Friday-Monday, and for Saturday displays Sat-Monday. Unless otherwise specified, all times are local.

The entries were taken from:

• The CHAOS web page
• Planetary phenomena courtesy of Fred Espenak's TYPE
• Additional phenomena from Guy Ottewells Astronomical Calender 2006.
• Meteor showers from the International Meteor Organization's 2006 IMO Calendar.
• Galilean Moon and sun rise/set courtesy of Jeff Stetekluh. Note that he calcluated these for the Washington DC area, so the times will usually be off by a few minutes.

For those with Unix systems, the astroCalendar.txt file can be used with the Unix "calendar" command (if calendar is installed on your system).

This page last updated 2/24/2006.