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January’s nights are unquestionably the most dramatic of all of wintertime’s skies and among the most awe-inspiring of the year. Now is also the time that the hunter becomes the hunted.

If you’re a skywatcher intrepid enough to brave these cold December nights, then you already know that this often lonely pursuit is quite bracing, yet truly inspiring. Heading outside into the evening air, one of the first things you’ll notice is magnitude −2.66 Jupiter shining more than 60 degrees above the southeastern horizon. Coming off […]

October skywatching is always exciting, but this time around, it’s particularly interesting. For most of Colorado, a partial annular solar eclipse occurs from 9:13 a.m. to 12:05 p.m. Oct. 14. Maximum will be at 10:35 a.m. when the moon’s and sun’s centers are at their closest. The southwestern part of the state will experience full […]

With the regularity of the changing of the seasons, there’s always a couple of special and unusual sights that accompany the arrival of September’s night skies.

If you’ve never been much of a skywatcher, these August nights will give you all kinds of good reasons to get into the habit.

July’s night skies are legendary for their sheer abundance of celestial objects such as immense star clouds, light and dark nebulae, crowded clusters and oddities.

With all the grand celestial giants to observe through this spring/summer transition, it’s important that skywatchers don’t overlook the small, glittering jewels sojourning June’s night skies.

May’s night skies are so rich with spectacular celestial objects that the skywatcher could explore them every evening and still see something new and exciting.

April’s night skies hold an unlimited supply of fascinating and beautiful treasures to behold. As with many things, how much you get out of it depends upon how much effort you put in.