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Driftless Dark Skies: Stellar Colors
“In a dark time, the eye begins to see.” --Theodore Roethke The stars seem brighter as we move into winter. Fourteen of the 25 brightest stars are visible on a December evening. The Summer Triangle of Vega, Altair, and Deneb is setting in the west. Fomalhaut is...
Driftless Dark Skies: The Pleiades
Fool: The reason why the seven stars are no more than seven is a pretty reason. Lear: Because they are not eight? Fool: Yes, indeed: thou wouldst make a good fool. November is an excellent month to discover the Seven Sisters, the Pleaides. They rise in the east just...
Driftless Dark Skies: Walk When the Moon is Full
This fall is a marvelous time for a moonwalk. The next three months, our calendar and lunar months align. The new moon falls near the beginning of the month. First quarter moon is a week later. Full moon is mid-month. Last quarter moon is the third week. And...
The fall color celebration
Everyone loves a party. Whether it’s 50 years of marriage, 25 years of a career, another year among the living, or another workweek among the gainfully employed, we humans gleefully celebrate that which we have accomplished or successfully put behind us. And so it is...
Driftless Dark Skies: Home in the Milky Way
“Why should I feel lonely? Is not our planet in the Milky Way? Henry David Thoreau, Walden Look up into the September sky and you will see our Milky Way flowing across. It starts in the northwest where you find Perseus the Hero, now safe from the gorgon and sea...
Driftless Wisconsin: shaped by water
In my last newspaper column, I wrote about our trip out west to the National Parks that my wife and I recently completed. About our experience at Yellowstone National Park, I wrote: “Artist Point, hovering above the rim of Yellowstone’s Grand Canyon, reveals...
Driftless Dark Skies: Planets and Perseids
I remember bundling up mornings back in February to enjoy the sight of five planets at once in the predawn skies. This month, we can do it without bundling or rising early. All five visible planets will be in the evening sky starting around 9pm. The Moon is an...
Driftless Dark Skies: Summer Triangle
As darkness falls this month, watch for three shining stars emerging in the east. They are the brightest stars in three separate constellations, but together they form an asterism (a star pattern) known as the Summer Triangle. They cover an area of sky larger than...
Small-town events in Driftless Wisconsin
Small-town events are the life blood of our communities. You won’t find big-town parade floats fashioned from roses or 30-foot high balloons shaped like Mickey Mouse. You will find small-town excitement, built from a community pride that draws folks to Main Street...
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