constellations

• August 23, 2011

  Ursa Major Don't Care and other tales of the sky

  I haven’t spent as much time looking at the stars this summer as I ought to have.  However, I have been able to catch several shooting stars and have learned to more easily identify a few stars in the sky, so I’ve had a little fun and I am making progress.  Yesterday, Tom and I were outside…

• July 6, 2011

  Summertime Constellations

  I hope you all had a great 4th of July weekend.  We had a lovely trip to Northern Michigan with family, and I got to do some stargazing one night.  It’s been a while since I’ve had a good chunk of time to look up at the night sky, which means it’s shifted a bit…

• November 11, 2010

  Constellation of the week: Cygnus

  Astronomy fascinates me.  It always has.  When I was in about first grade, I inherited an Atlas.  The maps didn’t excite me much, but at the very beginning of the book was a 2-page spread of the night sky with stars and constellations labeled.  This, I loved!  I remember seeing the constellation “Delphinus” on there…