I hope you had a great Christmas — or whatever you celebrate this time of year. I hope you enjoyed the full moon this past week. At least for me it really adds to the hol...
While we don’t have any Christmas constellations in the Butler night sky, there are three celestial signs of the most wonderful time of the year among the stars. There a...
Is that Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer in the Butler stars? Not exactly, but I'm going to try to give you the closest thing in the night sky that has something to do wit...
Stargazing will be worth losing sleep over this week as you bundle up to enjoy the annual Geminid meteor shower, one of the best of the year.
It reaches its peak very la...
No matter what holidays you celebrate this time of year, there’s much to celebrate in the night sky in December over Butler. Believe it or not, there’s even a little Chr...
Over the years of writing this column and putting on astronomy and stargazing presentations, I've received inquiries from many nice folks about purchasing a telescope for...
The king of the planets of our solar system has entered our late autumn Butler night sky and will continue to dominate the early evening heavens through next March.
In e...
From this coming Friday night to Saturday morning, Nov. 17 to 18, there's going to be a fairly nice show happening in the Butler sky.
It's the annual Leonid meteor showe...
One of the classic constellations of autumn is Pegasus, the flying horse soaring above the southeastern horizon in the evening sky. It's by far the largest celestial hors...
The best news for stargazers in November is that nights are much longer, so you can start your stargazing much earlier with the end of daylight saving time. Sure it’s coo...
