Happy astronomical autumn!
Summer switched over to autumn last Wednesday afternoon at 3:21, the moment of Autumnal Equinox.
The sun’s daily arc across the sky from eas...
While you’re enjoying the full harvest moon this week, check out the King and Queen of the planets in our Butler September skies.
As darkness sets in, look for them sid...
Now that it gets darker a lot sooner in the evening, it's easier to stargaze before the sandman starts working on your eyelids. You can spend a lot more time with your t...
The king of the planets has joined the ringed wonder of our solar system in the early evening Butler sky. By far, Jupiter and Saturn are the brightest star-like objects ...
Despite the September upon us, there’s plenty of summer constellations playing on stage in our Butler nightly celestial theater. Also, since sunsets are earlier your sta...
Since 1989, thousands of extrasolar planets have been discovered orbiting other stars. That’s just in the immediate vicinity of our home galaxy, the Milky Way. There are...
When you gaze upon the night sky, especially in the dark skies of the countryside, you can allegedly see all kinds of people and creatures up there.
Right now, there’s ...
Watch out for meteors this week
Even though it's become one of the most overused words in the English language, awesome is the very best word to describe stargazing this ...
The Perseid Meteor shower is upon us, literally.
All of us on spaceship Earth are really moving fast, traveling around the sun at more than 67,000 miles an hour.
Through...
Last week in Starwatch I featured the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion.
It’s one of the few constellations that indeed resembles what it’s supposed to be in the Butle...
