By Dan Hicks Op-Ed Commentary Like an hourglass of time, an analog astronomical almanac chart for our AD 2024 year depicts the ever-diminishing darkness of…
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Seeing winter constellations as warm southern stars
By Dan Hicks Lead image: The eternally congenial Gemini Twins fraternize in the night sky over a snowy northern hemisphere forest, but the twins are…
Cranbrook captivated by black hole time dilation dynamics
By Dan Hicks Black holes have demonstrated the strength of their cosmic gravitational reach – extending from the depths of space, all the way into…
Whirling into oblivion
A solstitial illumination of heavenly horrors By Dan Hicks A special winter solstice lecture at our Cranbrook Public Library will pull its audience into the…
Venus and Spica – celestial companions in a dawn sky
By Dan Hicks Lead image: Messier 104 – the Sombrero Galaxy in the constellation Virgo. Hubble Space Telescope. February 20, 2020. star-facts.com M104’’s glowing galactic…
Our night sky’s fastest and stormiest meteors
By Dan Hicks The 2023 Leonid Meteor Shower peak is tonight, November 17 (Friday) at 10 p.m. MST. Shower Active: Nov 3 to Dec 2….
A lunar-eclipsed sun shone down upon Cranbrook
By Dan Hicks Vancouver and Kelowna were cloudy, and Calgary was foggy, but Cranbrook’s sky was sufficiently clear to allow our eye-protected sungazers to observe…
Engaging locally with an Annular Solar Eclipse
By Dan Hicks Cash-infused Cranbrookers wishing to enjoy our complete October 14 annular solar eclipse in its full flaming ring-of-fire glory have a choice of…
El cometa Nishimura and a pending partial solar eclipse
By Dan Hicks Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) survived its September 17 1.9-light-minute perihelion pass around the sun and has been “slingshotted” out toward its distant…
A misty glow observed above star Algenubi
Comet Nishimura confirmed in Cranbrook’s sky By Dan Hicks Lead image: Comet C/2023 P1 (Nishimura) at the oasis (telescopic image); Black Desert, Egypt. August 26….