Family Sky Calendar
46 sky nights for your calendar, from 4 November 2026 to 21 December 2027: 14 full Moons, 17 meteor shower peaks with our verdict on each, two solar and three lunar eclipses, the solstices and equinoxes, and the planets at their brightest. Put the year's sky in your family's calendar. Pick what goes in: the Moon and Sun, meteor showers, planets, or all three. Then a grown-up adds it to their phone, and each sky night shows up on its evening, from now to the end of 2027.
Family Sky Calendar 0.1.0
What goes in your calendar?
46 sky nights: 24 for moon and sun, 17 for meteor showers, 5 for planets.
Moon and Sun: full Moons, eclipses of the Sun and the Moon, solstices and equinoxes. Meteor showers: every shower's best night, with our verdict, and a 7 pm reminder on the good ones. Planets: planets at their brightest and planets close together.
A grown-up's job: βAdd to my calendarβ keeps the calendar up to date by itself on an iPhone, iPad or Mac; Google Calendar does the same on Android. The saved file is a copy, and it carries a 7 pm reminder on each great or good shower night (a calendar you subscribe to may leave reminders out).
The three calendars, as files
Every night in the calendar
November 2026
- Wednesday 4 November 2026: Southern Taurids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Wednesday 11 November 2026: Northern Taurids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Saturday 14 November 2026 to Tuesday 24 November 2026: Planets before dawn, November 2026
- Monday 16 November 2026: Leonids peak: so-so (so-so)
- Tuesday 24 November 2026: Full Moon
December 2026
- Sunday 13 December 2026: Geminids peak: great (great)
- Monday 21 December 2026: Winter solstice
- Monday 21 December 2026: Ursids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Wednesday 23 December 2026: Full Moon
- Saturday 26 December 2026 to Monday 28 December 2026: The Moon with Jupiter and Mars
January 2027
- Sunday 3 January 2027: Quadrantids peak: great (great)
- Friday 22 January 2027: Full Moon
February 2027
- Saturday 6 February 2027: Annular solar eclipse, 6 February 2027
- Wednesday 10 February 2027: Jupiter at its brightest, February 2027
- Friday 19 February 2027: Mars at its brightest, February 2027
- Saturday 20 February 2027: Full Moon
- Saturday 20 February 2027: Eclipse of the Moon (penumbral)
March 2027
- Saturday 20 March 2027: Spring equinox
- Monday 22 March 2027: Full Moon
April 2027
- Tuesday 20 April 2027: Full Moon
- Thursday 22 April 2027: Lyrids peak: quiet (quiet)
May 2027
- Wednesday 5 May 2027: Eta Aquariids peak: good (good)
- Thursday 20 May 2027: Full Moon
June 2027
- Friday 18 June 2027: Full Moon
- Monday 21 June 2027: Summer solstice
July 2027
- Sunday 18 July 2027: Full Moon
- Sunday 18 July 2027: Eclipse of the Moon (penumbral)
- Thursday 29 July 2027: Delta Aquariids peak: good (good)
August 2027
- Monday 2 August 2027: Total solar eclipse, 2 August 2027
- Thursday 12 August 2027: Perseids peak: good (good)
- Monday 16 August 2027: Eclipse of the Moon (penumbral)
- Tuesday 17 August 2027: Full Moon
September 2027
- Wednesday 15 September 2027: Full Moon
- Wednesday 22 September 2027: Autumn equinox
October 2027
- Friday 8 October 2027: Draconids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Friday 15 October 2027: Full Moon
- Sunday 17 October 2027: Saturn at its brightest, October 2027
- Thursday 21 October 2027: Orionids peak: so-so (so-so)
November 2027
- Thursday 4 November 2027: Southern Taurids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Thursday 11 November 2027: Northern Taurids peak: quiet (quiet)
- Saturday 13 November 2027: Full Moon
- Wednesday 17 November 2027: Leonids peak: quiet (quiet)
December 2027
- Monday 13 December 2027: Full Moon
- Monday 13 December 2027: Geminids peak: good (good)
- Tuesday 21 December 2027: Winter solstice
- Tuesday 21 December 2027: Ursids peak: quiet (quiet)
How the calendar works
Every date comes from Peabody's own sky table, worked out with astronomy-engine for every night from November 2026 to December 2027, and every shower's rate from the American Meteor Society. Each sky night is an all-day event on its evening's date in US time, so it lands on the right evening anywhere in the country; what time to look is in its words. A shower's verdict weighs its best rate against the Moon that night, the same as on the meteor showers page. Nothing about you is in the file or the link: it is the same file for every family, and no ZIP is asked for. For tonight's sky where you live, use Sky Tonight; for the Moon drawn every night, the Moon calendar; for each event in full, sky events.
βThe sky has a calendar too. Here is what's coming, nearest first.β