In the nearly 20 years that I've enjoyed sharing my love of astronomy with you, I've rattled off many, many distances to many stars and galaxies.
If we tried to express ...
Shower will peak Friday
Early this month our Earth, in its orbit around the sun and traveling at better than 67,000 mph, is running into a dust debris trail left behind b...
Plenty above to see now
We have to wait awhile for summer stargazing to kick in, but it’s in full swing now. This is prime time summer stargazing.
There’s much to gaze an...
The Butler area is a great place to spend the summer for the most part, but for stargazing it's too bad that we don't live a little farther south.
If we did we could rea...
We’re all stellar, literally.
The iron in your blood, the calcium in your bones, and the gold and silver you may be wearing were all forged out of an unknown star that e...
It's been awhile since we've had five fellow planets in our solar system visible to the naked eye. Four of the five are arranged in two pairs and one of them is a lone w...
Summer sparkles with brilliance
It’s not as explosive as a Fourth of July fireworks show, but stars are available for gazing every clear Butler night this month. While th...
Aquila was favorite pet of Zeus
There’s a very bad bird on the rise.
It’s Aquila the Eagle, one of the 65-plus constellations we see as we peruse our night skies in Butle...
3 brightest in east sky are triangle
We're just about all done with spring and even though we're already living the summer life with kids out of schools and vacations und...
It's available for viewing entire night
This late spring there's been a lot of stargazing talk about Mars and for good reason.
It's been as close to Earth as it's been s...
