Looking Up

The Perseid Meteor Shower is back and the 2018 edition could be a banner event as we learn on Looking Up this week.

This week Mars will be as big as the full moon (as long as it’s viewed through a telescope at about 100x magnification).

But there’s still fire, or some mysterious heat source, deep in the belly of Pluto, as we learn on Looking Up this week.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout takes time to explain calender reformation.  We again mark a calendar to help us break up our revolution around the sun into smaller […]

It’s a good week to try and find the closest planet to our sun. Often times, the brightest objects in the sky are our fellow planets.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sheds some light and some shadow on the origins of the sundial.

This week on Looking Up Venus entertains the Beehive Cluster in a celestial gathering of lovely and luminous objects.

This week on Looking Up we are introduced to Barnard’s Star. There is a lovely constellation in the Southern Colorado sky right now, with the awkward name of Ophiuchus.