Happy Autumnal Equinox from Looking Up! Today marks the September Equinox. Most folks have heard of the two equinox events we have every year, the beginning of spring, with the Spring Equinox in March, and the Fall Equinox that falls in September. And today’s the big day. So, what does that actually mean?

On Looking Up this week we hear about a diamond encrusted dolphin visible in the late summer skies above Colorado. Quite often on these broadcasts, I talk about things that are really big. Heck, the universe is pretty large, so it makes sense that lots of big and cool things are out there.

Tonight’s the night for a tiny dot of light to dance across the sky in full opposition of the sun, as we learn on Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up Hal takes us on a star safari to search for possibly the southern most star visible from the Colorado sky. Do you feel like going on a bit of a star hunt?

This week on Looking Up we learn about a lonely star passing through our galaxy. I’m going to talk extra fast today to tell you about an extra-fast star in the Colorado sky right now, Gamma Piscium, the second brightest star in Pisces the fish.

This week on Looking Up Hal reminds us it’s time once again for the Perseid meteor shower. It’s time to revisit one of the best meteor showers of the year, the Perseids. Every mid-August the debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle gets smacked into by the Earth as we orbit the Sun.

This week on Looking Up Hal zooms in on a star by the name of Nunki.  There is a fun star in the Colorado sky right now that is pretty neat, the star Nunki, known technically as Sigma Sagitarii.

This week on Looking Up we learn a bit about the missions that followed Apollo 11. We’ve talked a great deal about the Apollo 11 moon landing this month, which is appropriate, given that the 50th anniversary of the landing was just a couple of days ago.

If you have no memory of the Apollo lunar missions it’s ok. Even the computers back then didn’t have much memory as we learn on this week’s Looking Up.  Next Saturday marks the official 50th anniversary of our first Moon landing, Apollo 11.

This week on Looking Up Hal and Bruce begin a month long salute to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo moon landing. This July 20th will mark fifty years since Neil Armstrong took his famous first step on to the surface of the Moon.

This week on Looking Up Hal cues us in on a sweet M&M connection in the evening sky.

Opportunity is dead. Long live Opportunity! Today, June 10th, is a somewhat sad yet very satisfying anniversary. You see it was a year ago today that the good folks at NASA were last able to talk to a plucky little robot named Opportunity on the surface of Mars.

After a winter retreat, the king of the planets, at least in this solar system, is back in our night sky.

Ol’ Sol, our friend and astronomical neighbor, provides the light and warmth necessary for life to thrive here on Earth. You might even say our Sun is a rock star.

Perhaps all that ‘core training’ Omega Centauri did in the past really paid off. It may very well be all that’s left of a small galaxy that collided with the Milky Way a long, long time ago. That’s the story Hal has for us on this week’s Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up Hal heralds the arrival of spring with a tale of a ghostly object. I love the arrival of Spring, with warmer days and nights.