It's back!
My favorite constellation, Orion the Hunter, has once again resumed his full reign in the early evening southeastern sky along with his entourage of bright co...
Maybe you received a telescope during the holiday season or perhaps you've gifted yourself with a telescope.
I want you to get as much as you can out of it. I don't want...
Welcome to stargazing in 2020.
January nights are the best of times, but also the worst of times. Just about everywhere nights are cold to downright frigid. Bundle up an...
One of the traditions of this most wonderful time of the year is to look for a morning “Christmas Star” in the east just before sunrise.
The trouble is that this time of...
Remember the late ’70s hit, “You Don’t Have to Be a Star (To Be in My Show)” performed by Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis Jr.?
Well, like it or not, we’re all stellar, lit...
Even though our next official full moon is this coming Thursday, we more or less have a full moon every night this week in the Butler sky, putting the kibosh on any seri...
There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the Butler night skies.
These long nights are blessed with some of the best constellations of the ...
Over the many years I've been writing this column, as well as putting on inside and outside astronomy and stargazing presentations, I've gotten inquiries from lots of ni...
In the nightly celestial theater, there are two hero constellations. Hercules the Hero parades across the evening summer sky and Perseus flies in the Butler evening wint...
A mini solar eclipse, compliments of Mercury
The planets Jupiter and Saturn have been putting on quite a show in the evening sky since midsummer, shining among the retrea...
