Sky Tonight—May 1, Star hopping from constellation Orion
amateur astronomers use star hopping to go from stars and constellations they know … to ones they do not know yet.
Sky Tonight—Feb 22, Stars in the daytime
The stars cannot be seen because of the glare of the sun.
EarthSky Tonight—October 14, Find constellations of the Zodiac on October evenings
If you are looking from the city or suburbs, you might not be able to pick out these patterns in the sky. After all, these patterns were identified by people…
EarthSky Tonight—Sept 26, The first point of Aries marks March equinox point
Aries often comes first because this constellation marked the sun’s location at the time of the spring equinox between about 1800 B.C. and 1 A.D. Its relationship to the coming…
Earthsky Tonight—June 4: Rastaban and Eltanin belong to constellation Draco
The stars within constellations are not connected, except in the mind’s eye of stargazers. The stars in general lie at vastly different distances from Earth. It is by finding juxtaposed…
Earthsky Tonight: March 15—The westward shift of Orion and all the stars
We got this question: “Orion seems to have moved and turned considerably in the last two weeks. Will Orion disappear before summer?” The answer is that all the stars and…