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Greetings, Stargazers. The constellation Leo is high in the southern sky. Leo can be found most easily by looking for the backward question mark, called the sickle, with the bright star Regulus as...
DATE: April 14, 2018 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, Stargazers. This March gives us another month with two full moons and gives me a chance to complain about the popularity of calling it blue. I will have a celebration when we have the...
DATE: March 10, 2018 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, Stargazers. Even rarer than a twice-in-a-month full moon, is a month with no full moon. This can happen only in February. It turns out there are many ways to define a moon period,...
DATE: Feb. 10, 2018 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. Maybe you have read or heard there is supposed to be a super-blue-moon-eclipse this month. Yes, there will be an eclipse. But I am sorry to report that it isn’t that super,...
DATE: Jan. 14, 2018 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. I have written a couple of articles recommending binoculars or entry-level telescopes, but it has been a few years since they came out. And because now is the time when...
DATE: Dec. 9, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. Queen Cassiopeia in Greek mythology was beautiful and knew it. But her vanity turned out to be her downfall. She claimed that both she and her daughter, Andromeda, were...
DATE: Nov. 10, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. Autumn brings not only a change in the weather, but also a major transition in your stargazing targets. Many of the stars in the summer sky are bright, such as Vega and...
DATE: Oct. 14, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. This month is a good time to see the constellations and deep sky objects around the summer triangle. The summer triangle is an asterism that first appears in the eastern...
DATE: Sept. 9, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. I have never seen a total eclipse. However, I have seen many partial solar eclipses, including the annular eclipse that passed over the Four Corners in 2012. I find them all...
DATE: Aug. 13, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. Saturday night is a full moon. We are also less than a month after the summer solstice. The combination of a full moon and fewer hours without the sun means that there will...
DATE: July 7, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. When first learning to identify objects in the night sky, novice stargazers should start their observations before it gets completely dark. The planets and brightest stars...
DATE: June 9, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
Greetings, stargazers. For summer observing, I like to travel south of the equator. That is, south of the celestial equator. There, you can find objects that would pass directly overhead for...
DATE: May 14, 2017 | COLUMN: What's up in Durango Skies
