October's first of two meteor showers is approaching, one that once saw tens of thousands of fiery stars shoot across the sky in 1946 Skyler Caruso is a Writer and Reporter of PEOPLE Digital ...
There is a dragon in our night sky. Draco is one of the circumpolar constellations that is above the northern horizon year-round, but is especially well-positioned to pick out at this time of year. On ...
As August arrives, the full moon will overwhelm our night sky with its light. But once the moon leaves the early evening sky later in the week, you might enjoy getting out and searching for Draco, the ...
Some constellations in the skies over Rochester are easy to see and some are not. Draco the Dragon is not the easiest of constellations to find, but once you do you feel like you’ve really ...
Some constellations are easy to see and some are not. Draco the Dragon is not the easiest of constellations to find, but once you do, you feel like you’ve really accomplished something. It always ...
Sky watchers from prehistory onward have long recognized that during the course of a given night, the stars and constellations appear to “orbit” about a single fixed point in the night sky. This ...
Being that it's Halloween weekend, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the Rochester night sky – Draco the Dragon, and the head of Medusa, with a hairstyle made of ...
If you look high in the northwestern sky toward the end of evening twilight you'll easily find the familiar stars of the Big Dipper. Shoot an imaginary arrow through the two stars in the bottom of the ...
The weather and the moon may cooperate to give Connecticut an opportunity to view a meteor shower that peaks Tuesday and Wednesday nights. The Draconid meteor shower should produce about 10 meteors ...
I have such mixed feelings about this time of the year. I really love summer, but every year it seems to go faster and faster. The star-watching nut in me loves this time of the year because I can get ...