Total lunar eclipses are certainly more common than total solar eclipses.
In fact, for any given spot on Earth you only get one total solar eclipse every 360 years. You ...
The next several mornings — especially Tuesday — set that alarm early and catch one of the best meteor showers of the year over Butler.
It’s the annual Geminid meteor sh...
Holiday shopping season has really kicked into gear and if you have a stargazing fan on your gift list you have a lot of choices. Maybe that stargazing fan is you!
I wou...
Believe it or not, even though December is almost upon us we still have some summer constellations residing in the western Butler skies.
Just like professional sports, t...
As far as I know there are no turkey constellations in the Butler night sky, but as you go over the river and through the woods for that big Thanksgiving feast there are...
What you see in our Butler night sky is not always reality. There are many illusions up there.
Whenever you gaze upon the starry sky you're not seeing the stars in real ...
Early sunset gives more time to look
With the end of daylight saving time Sunday it’ll be dark enough much earlier in the evening.
You can make the stars your old friend...
Pleiades cluster often the 'stars of the show'
In just about every kind of store that sells Halloween decorations and greeting cards, you will see some sort of cartoon o...
I don't think we'll ever need traffic reports for satellites over Butler, but since 1957, the dawn of the space age, more than 23,000 satellites have been launched into ...
Right now in the high eastern sky you can see something that's truly out of this world.
In fact, it's the farthest thing you can see with the naked eye — the Andromeda g...
