Tis the time of year for making merry, and also for changing seasons. That’s what we’re doing at 9:03 a.m. on Sunday, Dec. 21, the moment of the winter solstice, the firs...
While there really aren’t any Christmas constellations in the sky any time of the year, there’s a wonderful sign of the season waiting for you in the Butler early evening...
Next weekend you can catch one of the best meteor showers of the year. It’s the annual Geminid meteor shower, and if the clouds stay away from Butler, it should be a good...
There’s magic in the air this holiday season, and there’s also magic in the December Butler night skies. These long nights are blessed with some of the brightest constell...
On this coming Thursday evening, after the Thanksgiving feast and the football games, take a walk under the stars if the weather permits. It's a great way to fight off th...
You’ve got a great chance to see the “Planet George” this week in our Butler skies, as it has a very close celestial hug with the best open star cluster in the heavens, t...
The best news for stargazers in November is that Butler nights are much longer, and you can start your stargazing well before 7 p.m. For sure, it is cooler though, but on...
Being that it's Halloween this coming Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the Butler night sky — Draco the Dragon, and the hea...
One of the classic constellations of the Butler night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horsey is currently soaring in the southeastern early evening sky.
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