With the bright moon out of the late evening sky early this week, stargazers will be treated to views of the "celestial strongman" in the night sky: the constellation of Hercules. To spot the ...
High overhead in July, you’ll find the constellation Hercules. The four stars making up the top of Hercules is known as the Keystone and if you point a telescope or binoculars to the west side of the ...
How would you like to see about a million stars, all crammed together in a tight ball in our Rochester night sky? Well you can do just that. The Great Hercules star cluster is one of the true ...
In recent years moviegoers have been treated to a myriad of superhero movies. This month’s Colorado sky hosts a constellation that memorializes one of the greatest superheroes of all time, the ...
August is one of my favorite times of year to observe the stars; that’s because it’s warm! High overhead is Hercules, which contains a wonderful globular star cluster known as M13. To the west of ...
If you find yourself in a dark, un-light-polluted area anytime soon, be sure to glance around the sky with binoculars. Along the hazy band of the Milky Way and elsewhere, you’re sure to find plenty of ...
Have you ever noticed a constellation while driving at night and wondered what it was? Or looked up after dark and wondered what you were looking at? The night sky appears is constantly changing, ...
On late spring evenings, a bright stellar "keystone" is well worth exploring with binoculars or a small telescope. They say that on any given day, you can learn something new, and recently that ...
The cluster of four naked-eye planets that have been visible in the morning sky for the past few months - including multiple close conjunctions - is starting to disperse. Saturn, Mars, Jupiter, and ...