The Urban Astronomer

Autumn brings us cooler evenings and earlier sunsets, but it’s not yet too uncomfortable to go outside and gaze up into the heavens for a lo...

When conducting a star party, I always point out star colors. Most of the time, people see the stars as uniformly white, but in fact upon cl...

The Big Dipper is one of the easiest groupings of stars in the sky to identify, and it serves as a guide to some of the more interesting sta...

One of the brightest objects in the nighttime sky each summer is called the Summer Triangle. Rather than being a single constellation, the S...