Three stars — Vega, Deneb,and Altair — dominate the late summer sky and serve to frame our binocular universe both this month and next. We will begin this month by focusing in on the brilliant, ...

I’m always pleased to hear from readers when they have success in watching some celestial event, or finding some obscure constellation or star grouping. But I know that not everyone is so successful.

Sunday: Almost directly overhead at 9 p.m. is the fifth brightest star in the night sky, Vega. One-and-a-half degrees east of Vega is Epsilon Lyrae. Though the star may appear ordinary, Epsilon Lyrae ...