I sure hope you had a lovely Christmas, as strained and strange the times have been. As far as I’m concerned the faster we can get rid of 2020 the better! Let’s just hop...
It's time for my annual Starwatch column when I like to suggest what can be considered the Christmas star for the holiday season. Most years it's not actually a star, bu...
What a great weekend for stargazing in Butler! The Geminid meteor shower is peaking and a historic celestial hugging is getting tighter and tighter.
The closest conjunct...
As I told you last week in Starwatch, this December has so much going on in the Butler night skies. It's a good thing, at least for stargazers, that we have some of the ...
This December starts with a full moon in the sky and ends with another full moon.
While the first full moon is officially Monday, for all practical purposes the night s...
If you have 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 buy...
From Monday night into Tuesday morning, Nov. 16-17, there's going to be a fairly nice show going on.
It's the annual Leonid meteor shower, one of the better ones of the...
Several bird constellations are winging their way across the Butler night sky among the over sixty constellations we can see, and one of them is Aquila the Eagle.
Accor...
The best news for Butler stargazers in November is that nights are much longer! You can begin your pursuit of celestial pleasures way before 7 p.m. It is cooler though, ...
No doubt you’ve all heard the saying, “Once in a Blue Moon.” The astronomical definition of a blue moon has absolutely nothing to do with the moon having a tinge of the ...