Did Santa bring you a new telescope for Christmas? Or did you beat Kris Kringle to the punch? However you came up with a telescope I want you to get as much out of it as ...
Welcome to stargazing in 2023! January nights are full of starry delights but are not so great for comfort. Some nights can be downright frigid. But if you bundle up, you...
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...
We’re getting a great gift in our Butler skies this holiday season. Three bright planets decorate our evening skies; Saturn, Jupiter and Mars.
We also have some nice ce...
This weekend and early this coming week, the morning skies over Butler are definitely worth waking up and bundling up for to enjoy the annual Geminid meteor shower, one o...
There’s magic in the night sky over Butler this holiday season, and an extra gift from the heavens as Mars has invaded our eastern evening sky and is less than 52 millio...
What you see in the Butler sky is not always reality. There are many illusions up there.
Whenever you gaze upon the starry sky, you do not see the stars in real-time. Y...
I’ve been meaning to tell you about the tiny constellation Delphinus the Dolphin, and I’m happy to get to it finally.
Less than a hundred years ago, the International As...
If you’ve got a stargazing fan on your holiday gift-giving list and you’re considering a telescope for that special someone, even if that someone is you, I want you to bu...
While it's not rare to get two lunar eclipses in one year, otherwise known as bloody moons, I would definitely call it a celestial bonus.
Our first one May 15 to 16 was ...
