Bootes, the hunting farmer, begins his close pursuit of Ursa Major, the Big Bear. These two constellations are right next to each other in the early evening west-northwestern sky and are very easy ...

August’s full moon arrives at 2:55 a.m. on Aug. 9. As it wanes, it will play spoiler to the annual Perseid meteor shower, which is predicted to peak in the early morning hours of Aug. 12 or Aug. 13.

Meteors will be visible throughout the night sky, according to Space.com, but the Bootes constellation is considered the "radiant" of the shower, or where the meteors appear to come from.

On Boötes’s eastern border, Corona Borealis, culminating at 9 p.m. June 30, is another constellation that’s unlikely to have come up recently in casual conversations.

Although the Quadrantid meteors radiate from a point near the constellation Bootes, there's no need to focus solely on this area. Meteors can appear anywhere in the sky, so keep your gaze wide.

Shannon Silverman, an astrophysicist at the Clay Center in Charleston West Virginia, guides us through the cosmos above West Virginia. In episode 6, she tells us about some summer constellations ...

Arcturus is at the tail of the giant celestial kite. In the lower southeastern sky, not far from Arcturus and Bootes, is the large but faint constellation Virgo the Virgin.

Face east around 9-9:30 p.m. in mid-April and you can't miss shimmering orange Arcturus, the brightest star in the constellation Bootes the Bear Guardian. Two fists to the lower left of Arcturus ...

It’s the brightest shiner in the constellation Bootes the Farmer and one of the brightest stars in the entire night sky. Bootes looks more like a giant kite with Arcturus marking the tail.