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...
I have good news and bad news about the constellation Scorpius the Scorpion.
The good news is that it’s truly one of the few constellations that resembles what it’s sup...
The pursuit of the big bear Ursa Major by the constellation Bootes the Herdsman is a rite of summer in the Butler night skies.
It actually began in March and continues ...
Summer, at least astronomically, is two weeks old. The sun, moving along its path among the celestial sphere, reached its highest point in our sky on June 20.
The bad n...
