Driftless Dark Skies Guest Blog

Driftless Dark Skies Guest Blog

Milky Way over Mt. Pisgah and Wildcat Mountain Overlook by Dave Delap Driftless Dark Skies Guest blog by Dave Krier I came to the concept of dark skies early. Back in the mid-1970s my parents had bought a farm, and as an 11-year-old I came to love astronomy and...
Driftless Dark Skies: Venus and Mars

Driftless Dark Skies: Venus and Mars

As we wend our way from spring to summer this month, Venus and Mars will be putting on a wonderful show in the evening sky. Head out on June 1st and look west where the Sun is setting around 8:30pm. The first bright object to emerge will be Venus. It’s thirty degrees...
Driftless Dark Skies: Northern Lights

Driftless Dark Skies: Northern Lights

​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...
Driftless Dark Skies Conserving the Night

Driftless Dark Skies Conserving the Night

“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...
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