We have a summer full moon this weekend, and as great and lovely as full moons are they really mess up good stargazing with their whitewashing effects.
You can still see...
Across the celestial dome throughout the course of the year in Butler there are big and bright constellations like Orion the Hunter and Scorpius the Scorpion.
They are w...
This weekend and early Monday morning is the peak of the annual Perseid meteor shower in the Butler sky as the Earth cruises around the sun at 67,000 mph and runs into a...
The annual Perseid meteor shower is a late summer stargazing classic in our Butler skies.
The Perseids this week, and the Geminids in December are the two best annual me...
I love this time of the year because we still have plenty of summer left and the nights are getting a little longer. There is almost another full hour of nighttime and t...
It's been building since early spring and culminates at the end of this month …. the great Mars show of 2018.
Even now during the evening twilight Mars will be rising in...
The southern end of the early sky is a bit congested this summer with the bright planets Jupiter and Saturn already shining away, with Mars adding to the fray next month...
Rest up in the afternoon so you can be nice and fresh to take in some divine summer stargazing this month. It’s not truly dark enough until after 10:30 p.m., but it’s wo...
Last week I attempted to explain the tricks for finding Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, the Big Bear and the Little Bear.
What complicates things a bit is that the Little Bea...
Outside of the moon, the easiest thing to find in the night sky — even in brightly lit urban areas — has to be the seven bright stars of the Big Dipper.
As soon as it’s ...
