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Housatonic Water Works saga continues on with scheduled meetings and a court hearing

In his additional comments, Richard Gullick, who has served as the water-quality consultant for HWW for over five years, criticized the Board of Health, MassDEP, and local media.

EYES TO THE SKY: Corvus the Crow eyes Virgo’s jewel star, Spica

In Greek mythology, the Crow, Apollo’s sacred bird, got into trouble that resulted in the god catapulting the offender and his companions into the sky.

EYES TO THE SKY: Moon softens edges between day and night

By Friday, the 29th, a half moon, last quarter, rises close to midnight, accompanying springtime’s quintessential all-night constellation, Leo the Lion, visible now during the hours after midnight.

EYES TO THE SKY: Moon guide to evening sky. Welcome Fomalhaut, Orion, Orionid meteors

The Orionid meteor shower, predicted to peak before dawn on Sunday the 21st, is active through November 7. At peak, in a dark location under a moonless sky, a maximum of 15 to 20 shooting stars per hour are predicted.

EYES TO THE SKY: Five planets, summer solstice, fireflies flashing

At the first sight of the clearing, I was wonderstruck by an aerial display of countless blinking golden lights and dipping, curving, white gold lines streaking all over the meadow from the ground up to the treetops.

EYES TO THE SKY: Night sky delights: Saturn to join Venus, Jupiter. Full Corn / Flower Moon tomorrow

Most of us are never prompted to think about the dynamic nature of the world, a world in which the planets move in their orbits in space at varying speeds and that the relationship between the planets changes.

EYES TO THE SKY: Allure of winter stars, Perigean Full Moon

The largest full moon of 2017, a Perigean Full Moon, popularly known as a supermoon, occurs on Sunday the 3rd of December.

EYES TO THE SKY: Drunk on daylight, meet Saturn rising – and other flirtations

The next best part of welcoming Saturn into the evening sky is seeing the planet in the company of its celestial neighbors.
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