BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//SpaceCatalog.org//Sky calendar//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Sky calendar X-WR-CALDESC:The next twelve months of things that happen on a date — met eor showers\, sun. Every instant is the same fact everywhere on Earth. Com puted from the ephemeris by spacecatalog.org. REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:P1D X-PUBLISHED-TTL:P1D BEGIN:VEVENT UID:season-sep_equinox-2026-09-23@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20260923T000538Z DTEND:20260923T010538Z SUMMARY:September equinox DESCRIPTION:The Sun crosses back south over the celestial equator\, day and night level up again\, and the nights start getting longer in the north a nd shorter in the south.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-09 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-09 CATEGORIES:SUN TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-draconids-2026-10-09@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261009T012156Z DTEND:20261009T022156Z SUMMARY:Draconids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 21P/ Giacobini-Zinner\, and the debris burns up at 20 km/s. Under a genuinely d ark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 5 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back t o Draco\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is u sually almost nothing\, and about once a generation a storm of thousands a n hour\; the slowest meteors of any shower\, and the only major one best w atched in the evening rather than after midnight.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog. org/calendar#2026-10 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-10 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-southern-taurids-2026-10-10@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261010T161328Z DTEND:20261010T171328Z SUMMARY:Southern Taurids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 2P/E ncke\, and the debris burns up at 27 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 5 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer sti ll. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Cetus\, whic h is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is ten weeks of ac tivity at a handful an hour\, made worth watching by the fireballs — slo w\, orange and bright enough to cast a shadow. The radiant drifts right ac ross the sky over those weeks\, from Cetus in September into Taurus in Nov ember\, so the shower is named for where it ends up rather than where it i s on any one night.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-10 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-10 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-orionids-2026-10-21@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261021T182821Z DTEND:20261021T192821Z SUMMARY:Orionids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 1P/H alley\, and the debris burns up at 66 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky wit h the radiant overhead this is worth about 20 meteors an hour — a real s ky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer s till. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Orion\, wh ich is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is the other hal f of Halley's dust — the same comet as the η Aquariids\, met at the oth er place its orbit crosses ours\, and equally fast.\n\nhttps://spacecatalo g.org/calendar#2026-10 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-10 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-northern-taurids-2026-11-12@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261112T181729Z DTEND:20261112T191729Z SUMMARY:Northern Taurids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 2P/E ncke\, and the debris burns up at 29 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 5 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer sti ll. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Taurus\, whi ch is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is the second bra nch of the same broad stream\, overlapping the first for most of November and throwing the same slow fireballs.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar #2026-11 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-11 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-leonids-2026-11-17@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261117T235200Z DTEND:20261118T005200Z SUMMARY:Leonids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 55P/ Tempel-Tuttle\, and the debris burns up at 71 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 15 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Le o\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is the fas test meteors that reach us\, and the shower with the most spectacular hist ory — every 33 years or so\, when the parent comet has just been past\, it has produced storms of tens of thousands an hour.\n\nhttps://spacecatal og.org/calendar#2026-11 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-11 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-geminids-2026-12-14@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261214T134921Z DTEND:20261214T144921Z SUMMARY:Geminids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 3200 Phaethon\, and the debris burns up at 35 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 150 meteors an hour — a r eal sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fe wer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Gemin i\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is the ric hest shower of the year\, and one of the two major showers whose parent is an asteroid rather than a comet\, the Quadrantids being the other\; mediu m-speed\, often yellow\, and active from mid-evening because the radiant r ises early.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:season-dec_solstice-2026-12-21@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261221T205022Z DTEND:20261221T215022Z SUMMARY:December solstice DESCRIPTION:The Sun reaches its furthest south: the longest night of the ye ar in the northern hemisphere\, and the shortest in the southern.\n\nhttps ://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 CATEGORIES:SUN TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-ursids-2026-12-22@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20261222T221716Z DTEND:20261222T231716Z SUMMARY:Ursids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 8P/T uttle\, and the debris burns up at 33 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky wit h the radiant overhead this is worth about 10 meteors an hour — a real s ky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer s till. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Ursa Minor \, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is a small northern shower nobody watches because it falls the week of the December s olstice\; the radiant never sets from most of the northern hemisphere\, so it can be watched all night.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2026-12 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-quadrantids-2027-01-04@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270104T033412Z DTEND:20270104T043412Z SUMMARY:Quadrantids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 1962 56 (2003 EH₁)\, and the debris burns up at 41 km/s. Under a genuinely da rk sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 110 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back t o Boötes\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is the sharpest maximum of any shower — the good hours are about six wide\ , so the peak either falls on your night or it does not.\n\nhttps://spacec atalog.org/calendar#2027-01 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-01 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:season-mar_equinox-2027-03-20@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270320T202443Z DTEND:20270320T212443Z SUMMARY:March equinox DESCRIPTION:The Sun crosses the celestial equator heading north\, and day a nd night are very nearly equal length everywhere on Earth. Spring begins i n the northern hemisphere and autumn in the southern.\n\nhttps://spacecata log.org/calendar#2027-03 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-03 CATEGORIES:SUN TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-lyrids-2027-04-23@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270423T014916Z DTEND:20270423T024916Z SUMMARY:Lyrids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by C/18 61 G1 (Thatcher)\, and the debris burns up at 49 km/s. Under a genuinely d ark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 18 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back t o Hercules\, close to Vega\, which is where to point a camera and not wher e to stare. It is the oldest shower on record\, watched from China in 687 BC\, and still capable of a brief outburst nobody predicted.\n\nhttps://sp acecatalog.org/calendar#2027-04 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-04 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-eta-aquariids-2027-05-06@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270506T151935Z DTEND:20270506T161935Z SUMMARY:η Aquariids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 1P/H alley\, and the debris burns up at 66 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky wit h the radiant overhead this is worth about 50 meteors an hour — a real s ky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer s till. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Aquarius\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is dust from Halley's Comet\, hitting the atmosphere almost head-on and leaving glowing trains that hang for seconds\; much better from the southern hemisphere\, where the radiant climbs before dawn instead of skimming the horizon.\n\n https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-05 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-05 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:season-jun_solstice-2027-06-21@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270621T141033Z DTEND:20270621T151033Z SUMMARY:June solstice DESCRIPTION:The Sun reaches its furthest north\, giving the northern hemisp here its longest day and its shortest\, palest nights — and the southern hemisphere the long dark evenings that go with midwinter.\n\nhttps://spac ecatalog.org/calendar#2027-06 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-06 CATEGORIES:SUN TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-alpha-capricornids-2027-07-30@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270730T184021Z DTEND:20270730T194021Z SUMMARY:α Capricornids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 169P /NEAT\, and the debris burns up at 23 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky wit h the radiant overhead this is worth about 5 meteors an hour — a real sk y and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewer st ill. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Capricornus \, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is slow and bright rather than numerous — the rate is low but a good fraction of wh at it does produce are fireballs\, and both hemispheres see it equally.\n\ nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-07 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-07 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-southern-delta-aquariids-2027-07-30@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270730T184021Z DTEND:20270730T194021Z SUMMARY:Southern δ Aquariids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 96P/ Machholz\, and the debris burns up at 41 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 25 meteors an hour — a rea l sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moon fewe r still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to Aquariu s\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is a broad \, faint stream with no sharp peak\, best from the southern hemisphere and from southern latitudes in the north.\n\nhttps://spacecatalog.org/calenda r#2027-07 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-07 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT UID:shower-perseids-2027-08-13@spacecatalog.org DTSTAMP:20260908T000000Z DTSTART:20270813T081914Z DTEND:20270813T091914Z SUMMARY:Perseids at maximum DESCRIPTION:The Earth crosses the densest part of a dust trail left by 109P /Swift-Tuttle\, and the debris burns up at 59 km/s. Under a genuinely dark sky with the radiant overhead this is worth about 100 meteors an hour — a real sky and a real radiant altitude will give fewer\, and a bright moo n fewer still. Meteors appear all over the sky\; they only trace back to P erseus\, which is where to point a camera and not where to stare. It is th e reliable one\, and the one that falls in the northern hemisphere's warme st nights — bright\, fast\, and often leaving persistent trains.\n\nhttp s://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-08 URL:https://spacecatalog.org/calendar#2027-08 CATEGORIES:METEORS TRANSP:TRANSPARENT STATUS:CONFIRMED END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR