Dark Sky On Tap

If you live in an urban environment with a plethora of street lighting and billboards much of the "light pollution" will wash-out the night sky and complicate your viewing of the nighttime celestial bodies.  Tonight offers a terrific opportunity to venture outside for what might be the last of the stargazing with skies that are clear and cold.  This is because it will be extra dark tonight.  The darkness is a consequence of the new moon.  

So dark that an object like the International Space Station will stick-out like a sore thumb. 

A new moon is the first of the moon phases and it occurs when the moon is located on the same side of the earth as the sun.  Tonight is that night.

Follow the moon phases here.