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…
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Subaru presents Night of the Falling Stars
By Dan Hicks Away from city lights, where the Milky Way yet survives, the southern East Kootenay July night sky is graced with all five…
Perseid Meteor shower underway
By Rick Nowell The Perseid Meteor shower is here again! The College of the Rockies’ meteor camera in Cranbrook has been detecting dozens of bright…
The position of the planets for March
By Rick Nowell A number of people have been asking me questions about all the bright planets visible and what our telescopes can do. So…
February Night Watch
Under Swansea By Bob Ede Tough February for finding stars. Skiffs of snow on many mornings and low clouds pushing down on the valley bottom….
Celestial Rhythms – Week 48
By Khoji J Vihara November 25 – December 1 Think big! With the Sun in Jupiter’s sign Sagittarius, it’s about time to think big. After…
Chasing down the Perseids
By Bob Ede Both my dogs are over a hundred in ‘dog years’. They weren’t sure why we had to hike into the mountains before…
Searching for the Milky Way
By Bob Ede During winter the rule is: the colder the nights the clearer the skies. This season the skies have been cloudy more often…
On the trail of the Perseids
By Bob Ede Started off for the creek well past bedtime. It was nearly dark. The sky still held some blue. I was hoping to…