Our extra wet end of summer has given way to an extra dry stretch of weather for the leaf changing season. Maybe we will get some good viewing in. Fall’s evening sky is often thought of as the empty ...

If you've never seen a flying horse, take a look for it the next clear autumn night. It's not a literal winged equine, but the figment of the wonderful imagination of ancient astronomers who created a ...

October nights are famed for their ghastly Halloween frights, yet the skies in fact bring rather friendly and benign apparitions. Constellation Pegasus, the well-known mythological flying horse who ...

One of the classic constellations of the Pottsville night sky is Pegasus, the flying horse. The heavenly horse is currently soaring in the southeastern early evening sky. The traditional ...

One of the classic constellations of autumn is Pegasus, the flying horse soaring above the southeastern horizon in the evening sky. It’s by far the largest celestial horse we see in our night sky. The ...

Since new moon is Thursday, Oct. 19, it is a good time to enjoy a dark evening sky after astronomical twilight which ends at 7:08 p.m. Thursday. Around 9 p.m. look directly south to see bright ...

IN ANCIENT HINDU lore a winged horse emerges from the milky churn of primeval oceans to become the trusted mount of Indra, king of the heavens. A later tradition says it was instead Mahabali, lord of ...