Starwatch

Being that it's Halloween this coming Friday, I thought it only appropriate to tell you about my favorite monsters of the Butler night sky — Draco the Dragon, and the head of Medusa, with a hairstyle made of snakes!

I’ll start with Draco the Dragon, one of the larger constellations in the night sky. Draco is available for us to see every night because it’s so close to Polaris, the North Star. It isn’t the easiest constellation to locate because most of its stars are faint, but neighboring bright stars and constellations help do the job. It also helps if you forget that Draco is supposed to resemble a dragon and instead imagine a snake, coiled about the heavens. It’s mainly a line of stars shaped into a backward letter ‘S.’

This time of year, Draco is hanging out in the northwe

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