There’s magic in the air this holiday season and there’s also magic in the December night skies.
These long nights are blessed with some of the best constellations of th...
If you've got 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 b...
This coming Thursday evening after the Thanksgiving feast and the football games, take a walk under the stars.
It’s a great way to fight off the drowsing effects of tryp...
In last week’s Starwatch I urged you to get out in the evening and watch the great winter constellations like Orion the Hunter and his gang of bright shiners on the rise...
Most people love daylight-saving time, but deep down most amateur astronomers and stargazers can live without it.
Daylight-saving time is tough on stargazers, especially...
Lore includes sea monster and a princess
One of the classic constellations of autumn is Pegasus, the flying horse soaring above the southeastern horizon in the evening sk...
Normally I do this monthly star map column toward the first of the month, but last week I wanted to write about the 2017 edition of the harvest moon.
It’s bright light m...
There are so many songs, poems and myths about the moon and moonlight. One of the best ones is the old classic “Shine on Harvest Moon.”
If the weather cooperates this co...
Telescopes gather it in
No matter what level, from backyard stargazer to the greatest of astronomers, the more light we can gather from the heavens the better.
Until a wa...
Chase peaks in October
It’s an epic that begins in March and culminates in October. Bootes the Hunting Farmer chases Ursa Major the Big Bear across the Butler sky.
Both c...
