Tonight's the night for a tiny dot of light to dance across the sky in full opposition of the sun, as we learn on Looking Up. Tonight is a special night for a tiny dot of light, and today’s episode could be titled “far out,” because the dot of light I want to tell you about is the magnificent planet Neptune.

This week on Looking Up Hal takes us on a star safari to search for possibly the southern most star visible from the Colorado sky. Do you feel like going on a bit of a star hunt? If so, pay attention as I tell you about the elusive star Al Nair, currently low in the SW sky.

This week on Looking Up we learn how a world view did change. The only destruction talked about is that of Ptolomy's geocentric system. Count yourself in... Ever consider yourself central to a discussion? We humans for many centuries considered ourselves the center of the discussion, literally the center of everything. As a model for the cosmos we called that geo-centralism – the placement of the earth in the middle of it all.

This week on Looking Up we learn about a lonely star passing through our galaxy. I’m going to talk extra fast today to tell you about an extra-fast star in the Colorado sky right now, Gamma Piscium, the second brightest star in Pisces the fish.

This week on Looking Up Hal reminds us it's time once again for the Perseid meteor shower. It’s time to revisit one of the best meteor showers of the year, the Perseids. Every mid-August the debris left behind by Comet Swift-Tuttle gets smacked into by the Earth as we orbit the Sun.

This week on Looking Up Hal zooms in on a star by the name of Nunki. There is a fun star in the Colorado sky right now that is pretty neat, the star Nunki, known technically as Sigma Sagitarii. It makes up part of the “teapot’s handle” in Sagittarius and is located below and to the right of the much brighter Saturn.

This week on Looking Up we wrap up our month long series on the moon and the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions. If I asked you to guess where you can take a walk and know that your footprints will last a million years or more, what would you guess?

This week on Looking Up we learn a bit about the missions that followed Apollo 11. We’ve talked a great deal about the Apollo 11 moon landing this month, which is appropriate, given that the 50 th anniversary of the landing was just a couple of days ago. But there were 6 more Apollo missions, and they tend to be forgotten by the public.

If you have no memory of the Apollo lunar missions it's ok. Even the computers back then didn't have much memory as we learn on this week's Looking Up. Next Saturday marks the official 50 th anniversary of our first Moon landing, Apollo 11.

This week on Looking Up our month long tribute to the 50th anniversary of the Apollo missions continues with Bruce providing insight on how the program came to be named. In July 1960 NASA was preparing to implement its long-range plan beyond Project Mercury and to introduce a manned circumlunar mission project, unnamed at that time , at the NASA/Industry Program Plans Conference in Washington DC.