It was such a thrill to see the amazing auroral display on March 23 and then again on April 23. I remember so many nights standing in the dark waiting for northern lights that never appeared. But those two nights, I watched in wonder for hours as the storms...
“In the end we will conserve only what we love, we will love only what we understand, and we will understand only what we are taught.” Baba Dioum (born 1937) is a Senegalese forestry engineer. We celebrate International Dark Sky Week on April 15-22. Our...
There is a quickening as we near the Vernal Equinox and the beginning of spring on March 20. We now have twelve hours of sunlight, three more than we had back on the Winter Solstice. Sunrises are an hour and a half earlier and sunsets are an hour and a half later. And...
Venus, our sibling planet, is good evening company the rest of this winter and into the summer. After the Sun and Moon, Venus is the brightest object in the sky and the first “star” visible in the twilight. As February begins, the Sun sets in the southwest around...
The January sky glitters with gatherings of stars known as asterisms. Asterisms tend to be smaller than familiar constellations such as Orion the Hunter, Taurus the Bull, and Auriga the Goatherder. While asterisms do not enjoy the “official” status of the 88...
