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...
The colder and longer Butler nights of November are a stargazer’s paradise.
The bright winter constellations are on the rise, but the best show this November is actually...
Ghosts, goblins, and assorted other demons of the dark will be lurking this week among us with and without costumes, especially on Thursday.
There'll be airborne spooks ...
One of the great constellations of the Butler autumn sky is Pegasus the winged horse, along with its next-door neighbor, Andromeda the Princess.
They're easy to find. Th...
Another full moon is upon us this week, whitewashing the Butler night sky and making it tough on stargazers.
We’re also getting into the time of year when the full moon ...
There are all kinds of celestial characters among the constellations and all of them have stories dreamed up by people over the eons.
That’s certainly the case with the ...
