This past Wednesday morning, we all collectively experienced the vernal equinox, when all of the latitudes on this old Earth received the same amount of light and energy...
It's a joy for me to get folks at any age turned on to stargazing and astronomy. Usually what does the trick is to have them look through one of my larger telescopes at ...
Celestial twins shine over Butler as we move toward spring.
Gemini is one of the brightest of the 66 constellations that we see during the year around here, and it's eas...
There's no getting around the fact that most constellations don't look like what they're supposed to be in our Butler night skies. Not only do you have to use your imagi...
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...
