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 ...
Some constellations are easy to see and some are not. Draco the Dragon is not the easiest of constellations to find in the Butler sky, but once you do you feel like you'...
Have you seen it? I’m talking about that super-bright and super red “star” rising in the east in the early evening Butler sky. That’s not actually a star; it’s the plane...
As far as I’m concerned any October is prime time for great stargazing, but this October of 2020 is a bonanza of celestial happenings over Butler!
The headliner is Mars...
I'm certainly a lover of large and classic constellations like Orion the Hunter and Ursa Major the Great Bear, but I have a soft spot in my stargazing heart for smaller ...
You and I are a tiny, tiny, part of something that's beyond enormous.
Our Earth, solar system, sun, and up to 400 billion other stars, along with Lord knows how many ot...
