The sky calendar

Every date below is an exact instant computed from JPL ephemeris data — the same source NASA navigates by — and shown in your timezone when you open it. No rounding, no reprinting someone else's table.

Right now

Is Mercury retrograde? · Venus? · Mars? · Next full moon · Next new moon · Next eclipse

Retrogrades

Full moons

Eclipses

Eclipses in 2025 · Eclipses in 2026 · Eclipses in 2027 · Eclipses in 2028 · Eclipses in 2029 · Eclipses in 2030 · Eclipses in 2031 · Eclipses in 2032 · Eclipses in 2033 · Eclipses in 2034 · Eclipses in 2035

Tools

Saturn return calculator — your exact return windows, computed from your birth date. · Solar return calculator — your astronomical birthday, to the minute.

The live Sun & Moon

Real NASA imagery of both bodies as they look right now — the Sun from the Solar Dynamics Observatory, the Moon from NASA's hourly phase visualization — updating as new frames arrive.

Put it on your own site — free, attribution included

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  title="The Sun and Moon right now"></iframe>

Sky countdown

Live clocks to the next full moon, new moon, and both kinds of eclipse — each tile links to the event's own page, and kindles as its moment nears.

Embed the countdown

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  title="Sky countdown"></iframe>

The wheel, right now

Every planet's current position on the zodiac wheel — the chart of this exact moment, turning as the sky does.

Embed the wheel

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  width="460" height="560" frameborder="0"
  title="The sky right now"></iframe>

The retrograde board

Every planet's motion right now, and the countdown to its next station — the whole system's answer to “is Mercury retrograde?”

Embed the board

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