Moon - The Storyteller's Night Sky

Mary Stewart Adams–Moon, poetry, Venus–February 19, 2023

There was a New Moon on Monday, February 20 at 2 am, and by Tuesday evening, it will be a […]

Mary Stewart Adams–Moon, poetry, Venus–January 8, 2023January 8, 2023

If the skies are clear this week, we’ll see the waning gibbous Moon making a path through the stars of […]

Mary Stewart Adams–Mars, Moon–December 4, 2022December 6, 2022

The big news in astronomy this week is the occultation of Mars by the Full Moon on Wednesday evening, December […]

Mary Stewart Adams–celestial updates, Moon, poetry–October 23, 2022October 23, 2022

The planet Saturn has resumed direct motion after five months of journeying retrograde, or westward against the background of stars, […]

The Moon was New on Sunday, first New Moon of the new season, and by Thursday, it will have “shed […]

Mary Stewart Adams–celestial updates, Mars, Moon–September 11, 2022September 11, 2022

This week marks the anniversary of the death of Dante Alighieri, 701 years ago on September 14th in 1321. And […]

The Moon came to New Phase early Saturday morning, and this week, we’ll see it as a beautiful waxing crescent […]

Mary Stewart Adams–celestial updates, Moon, Venus–August 20, 2022August 20, 2022

This week it’s worth getting up for the ceremony of dawn when the crescent Moon crowns Venus as the morning […]

Mary Stewart Adams–celestial updates, Moon–August 7, 2022August 7, 2022

In a season when Full Moon coincides with one of the most prolific meteor showers of the year, it’s easy […]

Typically moonlight is described as reflected sunlight, but moonlight is the reflected light of all celestial objects, including the stars. […]