Last Updated December 10, 2018
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Note: Items listed in red are tentative. If signup is available, there will be a clickable link.
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Source: TimeAndDate/moon/phase
December
- [field event]: Wed 12-15: Geminid Meteors in Trona Pinnacles
- [celestial] Thu 13-14: Geminid Meteor Shower Peaks
- [celestial] Sat 22: Full Moon
- [celestial] Sat 22-23: Ursid Meteor Shower Peaks (minor shower)
January 2019
- [celestial] Wed 3: Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peak
- [celestial] Sun 20: Total Lunar Eclipse 8:41 PM to 9:43 PM PT
PAST Events
January 2018
- [workshop] Mon 1: Sign ups for September 7-9 Night Photography Workshop with Steven Christenson and Harold Davis << Click for details and to sign up.
- [celestial] Mon 1: Full Moon (Super Moon)
- [celestial] Wed 3: Quadrantid Meteor Shower Peaks
- [celestial] Tue 16: NEW Moon
- [celestial] Wed 31: Full Moon (blue moon), and total Lunar Eclipse
February
- [FREE webinar] Thu 1: Introduction To Night Photography (NP101)
- [other] Sun 4: NFL Super Bowl
- [celestial] Mon 15: NEW Moon
March
- [webinar] Wed 7: Creating Star Trails (NP105)
- [celestial] Sat 17: NEW Moon
- [celestial] Thu 22: March Geminids – very slow meteors. This is a minor shower caused by Halley’s Comet
- [celestial] Sat 31: Full Moon
April
- [FREE webinar] Thu 5: Introduction To Night Photography (NP101)
- [celestial] Sun 15: NEW Moon
- [celestial] Sun 22-23: Lyrid Meteor Shower Peak
- [celestial] Sat 28: Alpha Bootid shower (minor shower with slow meteors), washed out by moonlight
- [celestial] Sun 29: Full Moon
May
- [webinar] Wed 9: Creating Star Trails (NP105)
- [celestial] 15: NEW Moon
- [celestial] 29: Full Moon
June
- [FREE webinar] Wed 6: Introduction To Night Photography (NP101) – Moved from Thursday.
- [celestial] Thu 7: Moon and Mars at conjunction (within 2 degrees)
- [celestial] Thu 7: Arietids Meteor Shower(up to 30 per hour, slow with fireballs)
- [celestial] Wed 13: NEW Moon
- [other] Thu 14: FIFA World Cup begins
- [lecture] Tues 19: Landscape Astrophotography: The Marriage of Earth and Sky at SJAA, Hogue Park, San Jose, California.
- [celestial] Sun 27: Full Moon
July
- [celestial] Mon 12: NEW Moon
- [other] Sun 15: FIFA World Cup ends
- [lecture] Mon 23: Sneaky Night (and Daylight!) Photography Processing Tips at Adobe San Jose Photoshop Users Group [FULL?]
- [webinar] Wed 25: Creating Star Trails (NP105)
- [celestial] Fri 27: Full Moon
- [celestial] Sat 28-29: Delta Aquarids Meteor Shower Peaks (minor shower)
August
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- [celestial] Sat 11: NEW Moon
- [field event]: Sun 12: Meteor Showers and Milky Way Photography in Alabama Hills [FULL]
- [celestial] Sun 12: Perseids Meteor Shower peak For information on Photographing the Shower, See Here. For more details about the meteor shower, see here.
- [field event]: Mon 13: Meteor Showers and Milky Way Photography in Alabama Hills
- [celestial] Sun 26: Full Moon
- [FREE webinar] Wed 29: Introduction To Night Photography (NP101)
September
- [workshop]: Fri 7- Mon 9: Dark of the Moon Night Photography in the Eastern Sierras with Harold Davis, Steven Christenson FULL
- [celestial] Mon 9: NEW Moon
- [celestial] Mon 24: Full Moon
October
- [celestial] Mon 8: NEW Moon
- [celestial] Mon 8-9: Draconid Meteor Shower Peaks
- [celestial] Sat 22-23: Orionid Meteor Shower Peaks (washed out by the full moon)
- [celestial] Mon 24: Full Moon
November
- [celestial] Wed 7: NEW Moon
- [FREE Webinar] Tue 20: Introduction To Night Photography (NP101)
- [webinar] Wed 21: Creating Star Trails (NP105)
- [celestial] Thu 22: Full Moon
December
- [celestial] Tue 6: NEW Moon
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