Best views are early Monday
The Perseid meteor shower is one of the best meteor showers of the year for a lot of reasons.
First off, the Perseids are one of heaviest met...
August is prime time
The stargazing doldrums of late spring and early summer are over. We're entering prime time for summer stargazing.
If you can, treat yourself by gett...
Action can be seen in Scorpius
For the second time this month we have another great star show, this time in the early evening southeastern sky.
We'll have another nice ...
Saturn, Venus highlight show
I'm not sure if Van Morrison had this in mind when he came out with "Moondance" in the late '70s, but this coming Monday and Tuesday night, t...
They aren't as flashy as Fourth of July fireworks, but the stars are available for gazing every clear night this month and let's face it, the average municipal fireworks...
They'll be below Leo
Let's hope for clear skies in the evening during the coming week, at least in the evenings. There will be two major conjunctions, or what I like to c...
There's no mistaking Jupiter in the sky these late spring evenings, rising above the southeastern horizon just as the sun is setting later and later. Jupiter is by far t...
Saturn, Mercury also seen in June
The summer stargazing show is under way here in Pennsylvania, but you'll need that afternoon nap because it's not really dark enough to...
Red means cool, while blue spells hot
With spring rapidly heading in the direction of summer, our world has become a burst of colors. There's even color to be found in th...
I'm probably showing my age here, but I just love the old song "Far Away Places" by Bing Crosby from about 1950.
From time to time, when I'm scanning the night skies wi...
