By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary Lead image: Out on a night hunt in Cretaceous Cranbrook, a Tyrannosaurus rex detects the presence of a favoured free-range…
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Joseph Creek reimagined under the stars
By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary On the evening of February 11, our College of the Rockies was the setting for a “Climate Info Session” arranged…
Groundhog Day Rocky Mountain splendour
And some notable night sky sights in romantic February By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary (Unless otherwise specified, times cited are for the evening of February…
Rocky Mountain Sunrise Gold
By Dan Hicks With a golden glow on the southeastern horizon, the natural splendour that is the Rocky Mountain Trench awaits the rising sun in…
Eager Hill and The Three Worlds of the Morning Star
By Dan Hicks As November rolled into December, Mercury was our Morning Star – an apparition in our southeastern sky – rising two hours before…
Cannonball Planet Mercury to appear as morning star
A starry proposal to the College of the Rockies and a pending Dark Sky Preserve in the Okanagan By Dan Hicks As our innermost planet’s…
Sandhill Cranes – our true-life big bird
By Dan Hicks In August’s dry Douglas fir-ponderosa pine open grassy forest north of Cranbrook, a wary greater sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis tabida) keeps a…
Our Harvest Moon Riseth
By Dan Hicks Were the weather forecast favourable, this evening’s (September 13) harvest moon would present we Cranbrookers with a premier autumnal opportunity to toil…
Waxing Crescent Moon marks countdown to Harvest Moon
By Dan Hicks The Sept. 1 waxing crescent moon marked a cosmic countdown as Luna steadily grows to become our September 13 Harvest Moon (22:33…
Stepping into a Golden sky
By Dan Hicks Mount 7 rises high in the Rockies southeast of Golden, its peak distinguished by a mega numerical “7” created by remnant summer…