Wintertime is a wonderful time for stargazing in Butler. It’s the Super Bowl of stargazing as far as I’m concerned!
Not only is the air clear and not only do we see the ...
It’s midwinter and it’s absolutely wonderful to have the majestic winter constellations overwhelm the southern half of the Butler sky.
There’s Orion the Hunter and his s...
Jupiter, the goliath planet of our solar system, is continuing to put on quite a show in our Butler winter skies.
Right now, it’s high and bright in the early evening so...
If you were on Santa’s nice list and found a new telescope under your Christmas tree, you can have a lot of fun with it, but it can also be very frustrating.
Let me help...
The new year is upon us and we survived all the dire predictions from highly uninformed folks who need to take a high school science class about how the world is going t...
Without a doubt, the brightest star over Butler this week of Christmas is not actually a star but the brilliant planet Jupiter that’s jumped into our eastern evening sky...
I love hanging holiday lights all over the outside of my house and all over my trees and bushes.
Some of my neighbors think of me as the local “Griswold” of the neighbor...
There’s no sense sugar- coating it. Winter stargazing in Butler is not for hothouse flowers, but if you bundle up and keep your feet and face warm, the rewards are heave...
Stargazing's best upon us
Without a doubt we're entering the best stargazing season of the year in Butler.
Unfortunately it's also the coldest season of the year.
I call ...
Without a doubt, one of the strangest constellations in the Butler winter heavens is Auriga, the chariot driver with goats on his shoulder.
I would have liked to have be...
