This week in Starwatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer, Sagittarius the Archer. Not only is Sagittarius easy to...
Dare I say the days of summer are starting to wane in Butler. The back-to-school ads are running full-bore on TV, and the meaningless NFL preseason games have begun.
One...
It’s certainly rare to have a total solar eclipse and one of the best meteor showers in the same month, but that’s what's happening this August on nearly the same date!
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Welcome to part three of my trilogy on stars’ birth, life and death. In last week’s Starwatch column about the life of stars, I told you how stars cook up energy in their...
Last week in Starwatch, I described how stars are born in gigantic families in part one of the trilogy of a star’s birth, life and death.
Every phase is controlled mainl...
Every so often, I like to go into more detail about the life and times of stars we see night after night over Butler, provided clouds don’t get in the way. All of the sta...
One of the great ironies of the year is the fact that in the heat of the summer in the northern hemisphere, the Earth is much farther away from the sun than it is in the ...
This past weekend was the swan song for spring 2026 as summer astronomically kicked off very early Sunday morning, June 21, at 4:24 a.m.
It’s formally known as the Summe...
Last week in Starwatch, I attempted to explain the tricks for finding Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Big Bear and the Little Bear. What complicates things a bit is that t...
One of the best shows of the year over Butler is this week in the evening twilight in the western sky. The bright planets Jupiter and Venus are in a tight celestial embra...
