The planets Jupiter and Venus are parting company in the low western sky in the early evening, visible even before the end of evening twilight and available until around...
There’s a lot of bark and bite in the Butler starry skies as we go into the last month of astronomical winter.
Part of the wonderful array of constellations I love to ca...
I have such mixed feelings about this time of year. I really love summer, but every year it seems to go faster and faster.
The star-watching nut in me loves this time of...
Star cluster makes for good viewing
The planet Mars has been our celestial guest in the Butler night sky all this past winter, and now that we're into spring, it's starti...
We can see more than 65 constellations through the course of the year in our Shamokin skies. Some are big, some are small, some are bright and some are dim.
Constellatio...
I know that many of you received new telescopes under the Christmas tree, and I hope you're having a lot of fun with them.
If this is your first telescope, let me give y...
Sky is full of optic illusions
What you see in the sky is not always reality.
There are many illusions up there. Whenever you gaze upon the starry sky, you're not seeing ...
June and July have the shortest nights of the year, and good stargazing can't really begin until after 10 p.m. Plus, the show's pretty much over with by 4:30 a.m. when m...
In the case of the celestial hounds of heaven, the constellations Canis Major and Canis Minor, you can blame Orion the Hunter for turning the doggies of heaven loose in ...
Group has cloudy look
With spring beginning astronomically on March 20 at 8:08 p.m., it's only appropriate that signs of spring are appearing in the sky.
It's not exactl...
