Sky is alive this summer
It’s not as explosive as a Fourth of July fireworks show, but stars are available for gazing every clear night this month.
While the average fir...
Hype sure has become a staple of the media these days, especially on the Internet. With volumes and volumes of information out there, writers and editors are desperate t...
This week is the swan song for spring 2013 as summer astronomically and officially kicks off in Butler at 1:04 a.m. Friday.
At that time, the sun reaches its most northe...
Of all the constellations that we see through the year in our Butler skies, Virgo the Virgin is the second-largest.
The only problem is that it’s also one of the fainte...
Get ready for late nights stargazing
These next two months have the shortest nights of the year. Good stargazing can’t really begin until after 10 p.m., and the show is p...
Before I get really far out with stellar distances, I urge you to get out in the very early evening to take in the great celestial hugging and tango going on between the...
There are five fellow planets in our solar system that we can see with the naked eye and in May we can see all of them except Mars.
The red planet is just coming out fr...
Bootes, pronounced by most people as Boot-tees, is one of the 66-plus constellations we see in our Butler night sky.
It doesn't really look like what it's alleged to be....
I have a love affair with Saturn. There are many celestial treasures that I marvel at through the lenses of my telescopes, but my absolute favorite is Saturn.
Whenever I...
Stargazing on these Butler nights has for the most part lost its chill, but honestly it’s also lost some of its thrill.
The winter constellations, overall the brightest ...
