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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.

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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: β€œAdd to my calendar” 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

December 2026

January 2027

February 2027

March 2027

April 2027

May 2027

June 2027

July 2027

August 2027

September 2027

October 2027

November 2027

December 2027

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.

β€œThe sky has a calendar too. Here is what's coming, nearest first.”

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