The king of the planets, at least in our solar system, has made a grand entrance into our early summer skies, and will continue to dominate the early evening heavens wel...
The summer of 2019 begins Friday at 10:54 in the morning, at least astronomically.
Astronomers call it the summer solstice, and it's the longest day of the year. Friday ...
If you sit back in a lawn chair facing northward after twilight on these late Butler spring evenings and tilt your head way up toward the overhead zenith, the Big Dipper...
It’s more comfortable stargazing in June, but there’s a price to pay. You can’t get started until late at night.
In most places the skies aren’t really dark enough until...
Virgo the Virgin is the second largest constellation in the night skies, but it's also one of the faintest
Its only bright star is Spica. The rest of Virgo's stars are b...
Ask an average person to name a star and chances are they'll come up with the North Star.
Without a doubt that's one of the best -known stars in the night sky, but “Nort...
I usually write about telescope dos and don’ts around the holiday season, but I thought for a change I’d write about it now.
After all, it’s a lot more comfortable this ...
In my other life I’ve been a weather forecaster for nearly 40 years, and admittedly when the forecast goes really bad I end up eating crow.
Why is it that crows get such...
This is your absolute last chance to see what’s left of the brilliant winter constellations in the Butler western sky.
They’ve just about crashed in the low western sky,...
It sounds like a subway train rushing by. Or a plane flying low overhead. But it’s something much more exotic: In all likelihood, the first “marsquake” ever recorded by ...
