Over the years of writing this column and putting on astronomy and stargazing presentations, I've received inquiries from many nice folks about purchasing a telescope for...
The king of the planets of our solar system has entered our late autumn Butler night sky and will continue to dominate the early evening heavens through next March.
In e...
From this coming Friday night to Saturday morning, Nov. 17 to 18, there's going to be a fairly nice show happening in the Butler sky.
It's the annual Leonid meteor showe...
One of the classic constellations of autumn is Pegasus, the flying horse soaring above the southeastern horizon in the evening sky. It's by far the largest celestial hors...
The best news for stargazers in November is that nights are much longer, so you can start your stargazing much earlier with the end of daylight saving time. Sure it’s coo...
This week in Starwatch, I want to share the joy of stargazing in the early morning hours.
I was a regular super early riser for many years, but not by choice. Before I ...
Now that we're well into early autumn and the bright light of the harvest moon is long gone, it's a fabulous time to make a date to get out in the dark skies of the count...
It’s solar eclipse time around here, and the best one since Aug. 21, 2017, will be Oct. 14. Unfortunately it won’t be a total eclipse this coming but a halfway decent par...
There’s much going on this month for stargazers, including a solar eclipse.
October is also a month of transition, with summer, autumn, and even winter constellations ava...
Sadly, summer officially came to an end this weekend. Saturday at 1:50 a.m. was the moment of the autumnal equinox. That’s when the sun slips below the celestial equator,...
