Cincinnati Observatory

An asteroid will take up an orbit around the Earth this weekend, but a comet may put on a better sky show in October.

The new astronomer at the Cincinnati Observatory has been director of the Thomas More University Observatory.

That path of totality encompasses the ancestral homelands of several Native American nations, including the Myaamia, or Miami, and the three Shawnee nations. That has Myaamia researchers thinking about language, and historians recalling a story about a famous pair of Shawnee brothers.

The first recognized weather predictions in the United States were crafted at the Cincinnati Observatory.

Adams, a lover of the seas and skies, spoke at the cornerstone laying of the Cincinnati Observatory 180 years ago.

Parts of the western United States will be in the path of totality Saturday morning, but Cincinnati area skywatchers are looking ahead to next year's eclipse.

Cincinnati is known as the birthplace of American astronomy because of the Observatory.

After more than 20 years at the Observatory, Regas is spreading his wings and pursuing other opportunities.

He's been the astronomer there since 2000.

The Mitchel telescope was first used April 14, 1845, in Mount Adams. It's still used today but at the Observatory in Mount Lookout.