Photo Credit: Noel Corboni – Canon EOS-20-d and 17-40 zoom lens at f/4 piggybocked on 10” LX200 GPS UHTC – 15×30 second ISO 1600 exposures. The Big Dipper is probably the most recognizable celestial ...

At around 10 p.m. local daylight time on these warm June evenings, face north and look overhead to see the seven stars that compose the famous Big Dipper. At this time of the year, the handle appears ...

Now that we’re well into spring, you can easily see the Big Dipper at the start of the evening, suspended upside down, high above the northern horizon. It’s nearly overhead. If you’re facing north it ...

Anyone who enjoys gazing at the night sky probably has a few favorite star patterns they like to look for: The Big Dipper, for example, or Orion’s belt. But those familiar shapes that many of us ...

This week, as darkness descends, the stars of the Big Dipper are almost directly overhead. Next to Orion, the Dipper is probably the most impressive group of stars in our sky. Here we have seven ...