Bruce Bookout

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout tells us a bit about the naming process for asteroids. During another 80’s musical interlude, I wondered how asteroids are named.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout takes on a listener question.  One of our listeners, Scott K., asked a great question that is the basis of how we know, […]

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sets his sights on the Earth’s precession.

Bruce Bookout steers this week’s episode of Looking Up and guides us to the constellation of Aquarius.

This week on Looking Up we are ‘shielded’ from ignorance about the constellation Scutum, thanks to Bruce Bookout.

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.

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.

Would any given astronomical object still look as cool if it had a different name? Bruce Bookout delves into that very subject on this week’s Looking Up.

This week on Looking Up we’re bound for a star that’s 50 light years from home.

Bruce Bookout has been some days in preperation for this week’s episode of Looking Up… Our springtime brings to view a northern-sky asterism many amateur astronomers call the Kite.

Bruce Bookout carries the weight of this week’s episode of Looking Up in which four majestic stars come together for something special. Why?

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout is back, and he has a dragon ‘tale’ to tell.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout sends us an invitation to learn more about the meaning of meteorites in the Native American community.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout inspires us with comet ‘tales’ from various cultures. Comets are very remarkable objects in the night sky.

It’s known by many names but there’s no mistaking being face to face with a full moon.

This week on Looking Up Bruce Bookout illuminates us on the historic and cultural aspects of that special star nearest to us.