Rising with the dawn are Jupiter, Venus and Mercury. By Dan Hicks Lead image: Waxing crescent moon setting with companions Spica and Mars at dusk…
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Counting Perseids in our predawn sky
Contemplating a fortified evening under August stars By Dan Hicks Given the anticipatory media hype our annual Perseid Meteors enjoy every year, I have a…
Fort Steele reimagined under August stars
By Dan Hicks Fort Steele is shown aglow in its natural nocturnal grandeur – brightly radiating over a haunted barn and windmill, our spectacular summer…
Big Buck Moon will beautify East Kootenay sky July 10
By Dan Hicks Our Buck Moon will be at its fullest on July 10, at 14:37 MDT, rising at 23:04 (4 degrees altitude) in the…
Ringed Saturn – our Guiding Light to Blue Neptune
By Dan Hicks While farther out, our star-bound Voyagers convey an aspiration for human survival into an alien future time. Lead image: Neptune & Saturn’s…
Mars and Regulus rendezvous in the western twilight
By Dan Hicks On June 17, Red Planet Mars and blue-white subgiant Regulus will come to within a degree of each other; their respective magnitudes…
Charting pathways to the stars above
By Dan Hicks This May marks a minor Cranbrookian astronomical milestone in that the month will be the third successive year in which I have…
Earth Day night’s Lyrid Meteors
By Dan Hicks Summer star Vega is now rising into our northeastern sky by 10 p.m. MDT, with Arcturus to its right – due east….
Predawn falling star fireball adorns Cascadia skies
By Dan Hicks Lead image: Rivalling a nearly full April Pink Moon, AMS Fireball 2075 -2025 (left) casts a bright reflection upon Kootenay Lake –a…
Our April Pink Full Moon will arise in Virgo
By Dan Hicks Having begun with our March 29 New Moon, Lunation #1265 will, on the evening of April 12, graduate to rise as our…