The Almanac

Everything worth looking up for, in order — computed for your location

Next Up

The headliners on approach. The rest of the site tells you what the sky is doing right now; this room is where you plan — the almanac every observatory used to keep by the door.

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Coming Up

One timeline for the whole sky: meteor showers, eclipses, the moon's phases, visible station passes, and launches. Every row gets an honest call on whether you'll see it from your spot — and the moon's interference is computed for each shower, because a bright moon can erase all but the best of them.

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Next Launches

Live from Launch Library 2, with webcast links where the provider has one. Countdown clocks tick in your browser; the schedule refreshes at most every six hours to stay polite to a free public API.

Checking the pads…

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Take It With You

The almanac as a plain RSS feed — shower peaks and eclipses, no email list, no signup, nothing tracked. Point any feed reader at it.

/feed/almanac.xml

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