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, especiall...
Busy week in heavens
Air traffic control will be busy this week, and it will be more than just ghosts, goblins, ladies in black riding brooms and possible Halloween drone...
More than 23,000 launched since 1957
I don’t think we’ll ever need traffic reports for satellites, but since 1957 — the dawn of the space age — more than 23,000 satellite...
Just be sure to bundle up
Once again, next week we have a full moon lighting up the sky, making it tough to really stargaze, so what I want to do is give you my winter pr...
Wake up early on Wednesday
I hope you had a chance to enjoy the lunar eclipse earlier this year in the very early hours of April 15. I dubbed it the great income tax day ...
October has lunar and solar events
It’s really autumn now in Butler, and it’s a really wonderful time to get out and enjoy the absolute beauty of the night sky.
We’re en...
Summer 2014 is almost history. I hope you had a great summer and took time to have fun, both under the stars and under the sun.
Monday night at 10:29 p.m. is the astron...
This week in Starwatch, I want to take you to the low southern skies for one of the best constellations of summer over Butler, Sagittarius the Archer.
Not only is Sagitt...
Best viewing early in week
Four of the five planets that we can see in the night sky are having quite a tango!
Mars and Saturn are pairing off with Venus and Jupiter in a...
But it’s not actually all that super
No doubt you probably already heard or read that this weekend the full moon shining in our August skies is a “super moon.”
Up until ...
