Take an afternoon nap and prepare to do some serious — but comfortable — stargazing this month.
It’s not truly dark enough in Butler until after 11 p.m., but a summer ni...
Welcome to part three of my trilogy on the birth, life and death of stars.
In last week’s Starwatch column — the life of stars — I explained how stars cook up energy in ...
Star lives and shines
Last week in Starwatch, in the first part of a trilogy of the birth, life and death of a star, I described how stars are born.
Balls of hydrogen gas...
Over the years I've touched on the life cycle of stars in our Butler heavens, but I haven't really gone into detail.
All of the stars we gaze at in our heavenly dome ar...
We're into the shortest nights of the year so good stargazing can't really begin here in Butler until after 10 p.m., and the show is pretty much over by 4:30 a.m. when m...
Most of the 66 or so of the constellations we see around our Butler night skies require you to suspend any sense of reality and turn on the imagination big time.
I alway...
Whenever I’m scanning the night skies with my telescope, I often have a hard enough time getting my mind wrapped around the distances to neighboring planets in our solar...
Unfortunately, the evening constellations of spring are not known for their flashiness. It’s still worth staying up a little late for a night of stargazing, though. Thre...
They will go away until fall
This is your absolute last chance to see what’s left of the brilliant winter constellations. They’ve just about crashed in Butler’s low weste...
When I put on star parties, I love the part of the evening when folks get a look through my arsenal of supersized telescopes.
I love to target the heavenly bodies that p...
