The planets Jupiter and Venus are parting company in the low western sky in the early evening, visible even before the end of evening twilight and available until around...
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Mars, Leo grab our attention
I’m not trying to recreate H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds,” but our Butler night sky is under invasion from Mars.
For virtually the rest of ...
Spring’s back with plenty to observe
It’s the best of all worlds, looking out of our world this month.
March stargazing is fantastic because you still have Orion and all...
There’s a lot of bark and bite in the Butler starry skies as we go into the last month of astronomical winter.
Part of the wonderful array of constellations I love to ca...
Stars, planets light up night
As I said last week, despite the colder weather I believe that this is one of the best times to stargaze in our Butler skies.
The winter air...
OK, this is it.
In my opinion, February gifts us with the best stargazing of the year in Butler, not so much for comfort but for the wonderful celestial jewels that awai...
His ‘Gang’ is out in full force
As it does every year, the great constellation Orion the Hunter starts showing up late in the evenings in the low eastern sky about mid-t...
Do you know the name of the brightest nighttime star we see most often?
Yes, this is a trick question. It’s not Sirius, the brightest star in the night sky that we see t...
These are the best times and also the worst times for stargazing, at least in this stargazers opinion.
It’s certainly not a time for hothouse flowers to take on January ...
