There are so many songs, poems and myths about the moon and moonlight.
Some of the old tunes include “Shine on Harvest Moon,” but there is also “Moon over Miami,” “There...
Right around 9 p.m., when enough evening twilight has been chased away, look in the low south-southwest Butler sky and without too much trouble you'll see a teapot hangi...
Hold on to season as long as possible
Where has the summer of 2012 gone?
Well, if you’re like me, you hang on to summer as long as you can, and one way to do that is Sept...
We have a blue moon coming this week to the Butler night sky.
It’s the second full moon we’ve had this month. The last time we had two full moons in one month was in Dec...
This is the time of year that I make time to pull an “all nighter” under the stars because there's so much see, and many of the planets are also adding to the celestial ...
One of my favorite constellations is Scorpius the Scorpion because it’s one of the few constellations that actually looks like what it’s supposed to be.
The only trouble...
The annual Perseid meteor shower is one of the celestial “Old Faithfuls” showing up every August in our Butler skies.
It’s one of the two best annual meteor showers tha...
Mars, Saturn on way out
I have mixed emotions about this time of year. I hate the fact that summer is starting to wind down and vacation season is coming to an end.
Howe...
Last week in Starwatch I told you about a nice coupling of Venus, Jupiter, and the moon in the early eastern predawn sky, which is still going on minus the moon.
This w...
Hercules the Hero is not the brightest of constellations but it's a large one, in fact it's the fifth-largest constellation of the Butler night sky and it's home to some...
