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…
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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…
A dual world ecliptic alignment from Cranbrook to a sea of crises
By Dan Hicks Windblown streetlight-illuminated horizontal blowing snow heralded a clearing sky and, immersed within Planet Earth’s inner shadow after midnight of March 13, our…
March welcomed with Venus and total lunar eclipse
By Dan Hicks Ridiculously hyped as a “spectacular configuration” of all other seven planets in our solar system, but noteworthy nonetheless, is Cranbrook’s early evening…
Hungry Wolf Moon will consume storied Red Planet
By Dan Hicks A highlight of our January parade of planets is red planet Mars coming to within 5.3 light-minutes of our Blue Planet Earth…
Quadrantids, Mars and space alien encounters
By Dan Hicks I commend FM 107’s Dennis Walker for beginning our New Year referencing the Quadrantids, a notable meteor shower in our northern sky,…
Eyes on our December winter sky
By Dan Hicks Though Netflix romantic-comedy movie “Hot Frosty” will be our Christmas 2024 sensation, I fondly hope that after dedicating several days to its…