Still shining sedately with a yellowish-white glow high in the southern sky after sunset is the beautiful ringed planet, Saturn. Not too far south of Saturn you can find a little group of five or six ...

Springtime in the Southern California deserts is when the snakes begin to appear. They’re beautiful creatures, of course, but considering how much time I spend prowling around after dark, I’m always ...

With the bright moon now completely out of our early evening night skies this week, we can look to the south to trace one of the most extensive of all star patterns: the long and mostly faint ...

Now is a great time to see the constellation Ophiuchus, the Serpent Bearer, in the night sky. Ophiuchus is a sort of summer counterpart of the famous constellation Orion, the Hunter, which straddles ...

Sometimes when I look skyward on midsummer evenings, I can hear the theme song from the popular syndicated television show "M*A*S*H" in my mind. That happens because at this time of the year we can ...

A giant celestial snake is slithering into view in our current night sky this spring. We can look to the south to trace it during the early evening hours. In fact, the snake is one of the most ...

Here's a trivia question: Which is the largest of all constellations? If you answered "Hydra," you know more about the night sky than you admit. At this time of year we can find Hydra, the water snake ...

Here's a trivia question for you. Which is the largest of all constellations? If you answered Hydra, you know more about the night sky than you admit. At this time of year we can find Hydra, the water ...