91.5 KRCC's Looking Up

Hal Bidlack takes a measured approach to the constellation Sextan in this week's episode of Looking Up. As this month’s shows mark four years since I first started making Looking Up episodes, I thought today I’d so something a bit different than I have been the last 200 plus episodes.

This week on Looking Up guest host Caitlyn Voige illuminates a luminary by the name of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. When we look up into the night sky, stars look immeasurably small and distant, unchanging and everlasting. One woman, however, helped to find the distances to stars, and her name was Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

This week on Looking Up guest host Caitlyn Voige illuminates a luminary by the name of Henrietta Swan Leavitt. When we look up into the night sky, stars look immeasurably small and distant, unchanging and everlasting. One woman, however, helped to find the distances to stars, and her name was Henrietta Swan Leavitt.

This week on Looking Up Mike Procell has a few more tips on nightscape photography. The world can be a dark place. Half of it literally is at any given moment. The good news is nowadays you can readily capture beautiful images in the dark.

This week on Looking Up Mike Procell has a few more tips on nightscape photography. The world can be a dark place. Half of it literally is at any given moment. The good news is nowadays you can readily capture beautiful images in the dark.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout is back, and he has a dragon 'tale' to tell. Our Colorado skies contains a constellation that coils around the north celestial pole. Let’s briefly discuss the dragon constellation – Draco.

This week on Looking Up Hal spotlights Bellatrix, one of his favorite stars in the constellation Orion. The mighty constellation of Orion dominates Colorado’s winter sky, and it’s a wonderful area of the sky to observe with a telescope, binoculars, or just naked eye.

This week on Looking Up Mike Procell interrupts Hal's life story to talk a bit about night sky photography. Nightscape photography is something you can easily try your hand at. All you basically need is a camera that you can hold the shutter open for more than few seconds. DSLR cameras are perfect for this application.

On this New Year's Eve edition of Looking Up Hal makes sure we don't forget an old acquaintance - the New Horizons spacecraft. With New Years Day tomorrow, many of us will be thinking about the coming year and wondering about the new horizons we will see. But before we talk about new horizons, I’d like to talk about a very cool thing that is happening tomorrow with the old New Horizons.

This week on Looking Up we learn that even an old workhorse star like Polaris needs a little time off now and then. We also learn which star will be filling in for Polaris as the "north star". Have you ever looked up at the stars and wondered which of those thousands upon thousands of visual stars might have planets going around them?