Memorial Day weekend is considered by many as the start of the summer season, even though astronomically it doesn’t actually begin until June 20, the date of the summer solstice. Who wants to wait ...

It's an epic that begins in March and culminates in October. Bootes the hunting farmer chases Ursa Major the Big Bear across the Rochester northern sky. Both constellations are in the low northern and ...

Bootes, pronounced by most people as Boot-tees, is one of the 66-plus constellations we see in our night skies. It doesn’t really look like what it’s alleged to be. According to Greek and Roman ...

It starts happening every mid-summer. Bootes, the hunting farmer, begins his close pursuit of Ursa Major, the Big Bear. These two constellations are right next to each other in the early evening ...

It starts happening as late summer merges into early fall. Bootes the hunting farmer is in close pursuit of Ursa Major, the Big Bear in the Rochester skies. These two constellations are right next to ...

Around 9:30 p.m. Thursday, June 9, enjoy the 5-day-old moon in the west. The moon sits in the front part of Leo the Lion six degrees west (to the right) of the bright star Regulus. Fifteen degrees ...

This week’s first small-telescope target is a trio of double stars in the constellation Boötes the Herdsman. I’ll start with Xi (ξ) Boötis. You’ll have no trouble locating this nicely colored binary.

It starts happening every mid-summer. Bootes, the hunting farmer, begins his close pursuit of Ursa Major, the Big Bear. These two constellations are right next to each other in the Pottsville early ...