After another long winter, we could all use some spring. Yes, winter sports are great, but many of us are ready to turn the page. It’s time for spring of 2023 to begin, ...
While we don’t have any Christmas constellations in the Butler night sky, there are two celestial signs of the most wonderful time of the year among the stars.
One is sm...
I have such mixed feelings about this time of the year. I really love summer, but every year it seems to go faster and faster. The star watching nut in me loves this time...
Stargazing is always a lot of fun year-round, but if there's a slow time of year, this is it. The spring constellations just don't have the same razzmatazz that the winte...
All around us, there have already been signs of spring. Due to a change in the law several years back, daylight savings time has kicked in earlier. If you're a frequent r...
Summer, at least astronomically, is two weeks old. The sun, moving along its path among the celestial sphere, reached its highest point in our sky on June 20.
The bad n...
Astronomical spring doesn't officially begin until next Saturday morning at 5:37 a.m., but there are already definite signs of spring in the March evening skies.
One of...
Over the many years I've been writing this column, I've rattled off the distances to many celestial objects.
I don't often use miles to express stellar and galactic dist...
In the nightly celestial theater, there are two hero constellations. Hercules the Hero parades across the evening summer sky and Perseus flies in the Butler evening wint...
Sun enters northern sphere
Even though the weather may not exactly be advertising spring, nothing can stop it astronomically.
The vernal equinox is this coming Wednesday ...
