Happy Wednesday fellow space-buddies! For this week’s Stargazing Side Quest we are going to leave the solar system and check out the sixth brightest star in the night sky, Capella! Capella is the brightest star in the constellation Auriga. To find Capella, I like to start at Orion and keep Read more…
Happy Wednesday everyone! This week we will be revisiting last week’s side quest so it will be an easy one! Last week we looked to the western sky after sunset to see the crescent Moon next to the planet Jupiter. Below the Moon and Jupiter we also saw the planet Read more…
Happy Wednesday! It’s time for another Stargazing Side Quest! For Week 58 we will be looking at the waxing crescent Moon right next to the biggest planet in our solar system, Jupiter! For this week’s side quest you’ll have to go out earlier than our usual 10pm. If you go Read more…
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Have you ever witnessed a star being born? If not, read on because I have a treat for you this week! This week we will be heading back to our old pal Orion, but instead of looking for a particular star, our Stargazing Side Quest target this Read more…
Happy Wednesday, everyone! Tonight for week 56 of #WUFO we will be looking for “The Little Dog Star” Procyon in Canis Minor! Procyon is the brightest star in the wee constellation Canis Minor (the Lesser Dog) and the 8th brightest star in the night sky. It is found to the Read more…
Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to week 55! This week we will be looking for the brightest star in the night sky and the brightest star in the constellation Canis Major: SIRIUS Sirius, also known as the “Dog Star” is so bright and so twinkly, especially while close to the Read more…
Happy Wednesday everyone! For Week 54 we will be revisiting the Orion constellation again, but this time we’ll be finding a different star: Rigel! Rigel is the brightest star in Orion. It is a blue supergiant star that is 47,000 times more luminous than our Sun and nearly 80 times Read more…
Happy Wednesday everyone and welcome to a very special #WUFO week! You may remember, or have seen on the pinned post of the @stargazingsidequest Instagram account, that on Jan 18th 2022 I tweeted out what I read in John Keel’s “The Mothman Prophecies” that you’re apparently more likely to see Read more…
Happy Wednesday, everyone! This week we will be looking for the biggest planet in the solar system – Jupiter! Our first ever Stargazing Side Quest back in January 2022 was Jupiter – were you here for that? At that time we actually went out right after sunset to view Jupiter. Read more…
Welcome everyone to the first #WUFO Stargazing Side Quest of 2023! I am so excited to be getting started on another year of WUFO and learning the night sky together! This week we will be looking for a giant star in the constellation Taurus called El Nath (Beta Tauri)! This Read more…