This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! If you had to pick the most important star to humans in the northern hemisphere over the past few thousand years, which star would you pick?

  This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! The best known grouping of stars for most of us is the Big Dipper.

  This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal  Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up!

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up!    On a clear day in Southern Colorado you can see for miles, to Pikes Peak, the Spanish Peaks and beyond.

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! Where do you live? Often there are several ways to answer that question. Your street, your city, your state and more.

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up in the night’s sky!

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up! Astronomers use telescopes to look at distant stars.

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal    Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up in the night sky!

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up in the night sky! The brighter something, the easier it is to see.

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up in the night sky right now.

This is “Looking UP! in southern Colorado,” from the Colorado Springs Astronomical Society. I’m Hal Bidlack, and there are lots of reasons to look up in the night sky right now. We have a special visitor, Comet Lovejoy, streaking through the inner solar system.