Driftless Dark Skies, Uncategorized
2061 sky view graphic created with Starry Night software. Orbit graphic by Ian Ridpath. Driftless Dark Skies: Halfway for Halley Humans have been awed by Comet Halley for generations. Every 75-79 years it returns and is visible to skywatchers on Earth. There is a... 
Driftless Dark Skies, Uncategorized
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, Uncategorized
Our planet has its closest approaches to Jupiter and Saturn this month. Both worlds spend July in the constellation Sagittarius the Archer. They rise in the southeast around sunset, are visible all night long as they pass low across the southern sky, and set in the... 
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Time seems to slow down around the solstice. It takes an extra half minute for the face of the sun to slip below the horizon on the June 20th summer solstice than it did on the March 19th vernal equinox. There is the slowest change in the time of the sunset. It... 
Driftless Dark Skies, Uncategorized
When I was a high school teacher, we sometimes had the ritual of starting class with a student letting us know the phase of the moon and when it would rise and set. We spent too much of the day cut off from fresh air and sunlight, and it seemed that such a custom... 
