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Driftless Dark Skies: Shakespeare’s Eclipse
Eclipses are an amazing coincidence. The Moon needs to orbit between Sun and Earth. It can’t be too high or too low when it passes between. It needs to be the right distance so that it exactly covers the Sun. And we need to be on the right spot on Earth to stand...
Fishing on a Driftless Summer Day
Rivers have had their say again, and seldom have they spoken so loudly. Halfway through summer, people throughout the Midwest are still wrangling with the aftermath of June flooding. As rivers return to their banks, life, as it must, returns to summer.
Driftless Dark Skies: Summer of Saturn
There’s a little bit of showmanship in sharing stargazing. It helps to be mindful that other people might not be quite as wowed as you are by the sight of a faint fuzzy thing in the eyepiece of a telescope (even if it is the combined light of hundreds of billions of...
Driftless Dark Skies: Summer Stargazing
The warm nights ahead are a great time to get to explore our dark skies. There are plenty of opportunities this summer in the Driftless Area to have a look through a telescope. If you have been meaning to explore our starry skies, this is your summer. Kickapoo Valley...
The Driftless
Editors Note: This column is republished from the December 2004 issue of Tapestry Magazine Whoever said the shortest distance between two points is a straight line never lived in the Driftless area. Steep-faced bluffs and winding river valleys simply do not permit...
Driftless Dark Skies: Spring Planets
You can see all five classical planets this month. A telescope lets you enjoy more of the details. Binoculars help you spot them. But you can see all five with your eyes alone. Mercury makes its best appearance of 2017 in the evening sky of early April. The innermost...
Driftless Dark Skies: Creating Constellations
Years ago I went with the Cub Scouts to visit the Franklin Institute in Philadelphia. I definitely enjoyed being a blood cell and circulating through the Giant Heart there, but what really wowed me was the Fels Planetarium. The lights went down, the stars came out,...
The Great Wisconsin Bucket List
Editor's note: I found this blog written by Owen Gibson to be inspiring and hope you do too. Don't Blink Trailer | The Great Wisconsin Adventure Story from Don't Blink on Vimeo. In April of 2014 my best friend, Gregory, lost his Mom to cancer. She was just...
Driftless Dark Skies: 2017 American Eclipse
On August 21, the sky will darken and the planets and stars will be visible in the middle of the day as our moon covers our sun. This is a relatively rare event. The last time a total solar eclipse was visible in the continental United States was 1979. You won’t...
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