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...
When most folks think of stargazing they think of going out after dinner, taking in the stars, finding constellations and maybe poking a telescope at something celestial...
It’s the spookiest time of the year!
This week, many ghosts, goblins and assorted other demons of the dark will be walking among us, with and without costumes, and alleg...
Some constellations are easy to see and some are not.
Draco the Dragon is not the easiest of constellations to find, but once you do you’ll feel like you’ve really acco...
