Wednesday, July 02, 2025

Today: With no Moonlight to compete with tonight, the two brightest stars in our summer skies – Arcturus, high in the south, and Vega, high in the east – guide you to a much fainter star group, Corona Borealis, the Northern Crown. Look one third of the way from...

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Today: Draco, the Dragon is not as well known as its neighbors – the Big and Little Dippers, or Big and Little Bears – but it is a beautiful pattern to find in the sky. Look between the two Dippers to see a thin line of faint stars that hooks half-way...

Tuesday, July 01, 2025

Today: I know talking about Mercury is problematic, but assuming that one could see it within a few minutes after sunset, there’s then quite a string from there through Regulus, Mars, The Moon, and Spica. But then again, the projection of the sky that’s done via...

Monday, June 30, 2025

Today: The Big Dipper is beginning to drop a little into the northwestern skies from its position at the top of the sky in May. A legend from the Seneca Tribe tells us that the bowl of the dipper is really a bear, with the closest star to the bowl a hunter with a bow...