A month to star gaze
WELCOME TO the August night sky. This month is the traditional holiday month, when more people are outside and actually notice ‘things’ in the night sky. I always get calls
The July night sky
WELCOME TO the July night sky.This month gets off with a ‘bang’, as on July 4, NASA will try to blow a hole in a comet! This attempt is called
The month of extremes
WELCOME TO the June night sky. This is the month of extremes, when the days are the longest and the nights are the shortest of the year. The Summer Solstice
Watch out for the bear
WELCOME to the May night sky. This month, the daytime temperature can climb into the 30s and the nights offer cool relief. Soon after sunset, in the west-northwest, you can
The February night sky
WELCOME to the February night sky. This is the month of the grand constellation Orion shining brightly high in the south. This constellation sits on the Equator of the sky
The January night sky
The month of the giant ringed planet. THE NEW YEAR starts off with a comet called Macholz, named after its discoverer Don Macholz, who saw it in August 2004. This
The November night sky
After several months without any bright planets in the evening sky, we now start to see the majestic planet Saturn rising soon after sunset, low in the east-northeast. This planet
The October night sky
Welcome to the October night sky. This is the month when the clocks go back and we really know that we are in the autumn season and summer is long
The September night sky
Welcome to the September night sky. This is the month of the autumn equinox, when the sun passes the midway point in its journey down from the highest level in