The roof, 6:44 a.m., Nov. 28

#nofilter

A pre-dawn planetary show over East 3rd Street

Local astronomy buff Felton Davis writes in this morning ...

Fantastic pre-dawn lineup of planets in the east over 3rd Street: Jupiter in Leo, Mars and Venus in Virgo, and last but not least the waning crescent Moon coming up just before the Sun.

Meanwhile, you can check out some photos of the 2nd Avenue Star Watchers right here.

X marks the spot above 1st Avenue

Or maybe a belated xmas message? Photo this afternoon via Grant Shaffer

[Updated] Things that you might be able to briefly see streak across the sky this evening

On the East Coast? You might see the #Antares launch to @Space_Station tonight at 6:45pm ET http://t.co/mOT13ggfmS pic.twitter.com/1fTczDdfYY

— NASA (@NASA) October 27, 2014

And despite the rumors, it is NOT a promo for "Interstellar."

Updated
Ah, NASA aborted the launch... "due to a boat downrange in the hazard area."

We'll attempt to launch #Antares tomorrow at 6:22pm ET. Learn more about #Cygnus: http://t.co/6Bo6KBRWnG pic.twitter.com/jDLpmZ9rgN

— NASA (@NASA) October 27, 2014

Previously on EV Grieve:
A look at NASA's Minotaur Rocket streaking across the East Village sky

H/T EVG reader Steven

Above 1st Avenue, 7:43 a.m., July 26

Via @evgrieve

[Updated] Today in maybe-strange things hovering in the sky

EVG Roving Photographer Bobby Williams happened to have his camera pointed down Tribeca way… when THIS appeared…



Non-plausible theories welcome.

Updated 2:37 p.m.

Thanks to the several readers who sent along this alert from the NYPD…

A private architecture firm will conduct height surveys of buildings in Manhattan today, Sunday, April 20th, and tomorrow, Monday, April 21st. The architectural height surveys will consist of a large balloon aloft approximately 800 feet today from 11 a.m. until 8:15 p.m. in the vicinity of Chrystie and Stanton Streets, and tomorrow from 7 a.m. until 8:30 p.m. in the vicinity of East 58th Street and Sutton Place.

The sky a little while ago

From Avenue B… not Photoshopped or nothing…

Yesterday's sky in review

We keep posting photos of the sky

[Click on image to enlarge]

This is actually from yesterday morning ... via Bobby Williams.

That early-morning sky

Photo by Nick Solares.

Morning sky

[Second Avenue via peter radley]

[East 7th Street via EVG]

What the hell was that?

We waited to post these photos until we spoke with NASA, NORAD, the U.S. Military and the World Weekly News.

Bobby Williams took these photos from his East Village apartment last night. Here is his description via email: "This flew by about 9:38 pm. Heading north then turning east."

Aside from anything related to the Hoboken Hoof or Amanda Bynes (just getting those guesses out of the way!), any ideas what this is/was?

Above the Bowery

Photo from the Bowery by Bobby Williams earlier today...

Golden eye

Bobby Williams took this photo late yesterday afternoon, between the monsooning bouts of heavy rain...

Comet spotting with East Village resident Felton Davis

You can often find East Village resident Felton Davis stargazing on Second Avenue and East Third Street. However, he had to travel down to Battery Park last Wednesday to see the comet C/2011 L4 PANSTARRS.

He shared some photos and his story with us.

"It was a cold night, with a strong wind coming down over the Hudson, that made long-exposure photos very difficult. Comet Panstarrs 2011 last appeared about 100 million years ago, during the age of the dinosaurs. As it came around the sun last week, it was visible first in Buenos Aires and New Zealand, but took its time arriving in the northern hemisphere."



"As an amateur photographer, I have to confess that I was not able to get everything into one good photo. I could take a picture of the sunset with the Statue of Liberty on the left, and the crescent moon in the center. I could take a pretty good close-up of the moon. And of course every time the seagulls swooped over, I thought they must have sighted it. After all, birds live in the sky, and so must know whenever something unusual is about to appear!"

The comet is stil not visible here...





The comet is above the clouds... (That is Felton using the arrow!)



And at last.

"The comet finally appeared below the moon, with a tail extending up and slightly to the left. Only timed exposures of at least three seconds revealed the tail. It will rise higher in the days to come, but also grow fainter as it recedes from us on its long journey to the edge of the solar system."

Skylarking

A shot to end the weekend from Blue Glass... taken on 10th Street...

More double rainbows!

The above shot is from Paul Dougherty outside his window this evening at 5:35. He quickly quickly collaged it together ... "the most perfect rainbow I've seen, going from 14th & 1st Ave to the waterside towers in Williamsburg."

...and a shot a reader sent along from Midtown...



Earlier!

Somewhere over the double rainbow on 14th Street

Cool shot from earlier this evening via @pauljonwallace.

Triple bonus points for the double rainbow shot from this vantage....

Another group of people happy the 30 consecutive days of rain are over: skywriters

Saw this from Astor Place on Sunday afternoon.







No idea what the hell it says, but...

Somewhere over Fifth Street

The weekend sky theme continues ...




I will now not ruin the moment by playing something by Rainbow, though I thought about it.