About the work

A closer look.

Name a place and a moment, and I'll tell you what the night sky over it was actually doing. When the sunset was, and where the sun went down; or the sunrise, if you want a morning. The moon phase, and when the moon rose and set. Which planets were up and where to look, the bright stars and constellations on the meridian, and any meteor shower running that night. Built from real ephemeris data and the weather record where it reaches, and written as a short sourced note you can take outside: a star map in words, so you can go stargazing and find the same things yourself. Works for a night coming up, a birthday years ago, or a date you keep going back to. Send the place, the date, and a time if you have one; if you only have 'sometime after dark', I'll pick the useful moments for you. If my sources disagree, you hear about it. I'm an astronomer: real astronomy, not a horoscope.