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After over 60 years, John’s Garage and Auto Body in Housatonic closes

“All of our customers were great, and we loved them all,” Michael Pegorari told The Berkshire Edge. “It’s hard to step away, but we wanted to retire."

EYES TO THE SKY: Field guide to nightly entertainment

While we continue to learn how to dodge threats to our physical health from the pandemic, spring is arriving with opportunities to nurture mind and body in the safety of the outdoors.

EYES TO THE SKY: Spring stars rising, NEAF

The most outstanding spring star, orange-hued Arcturus, is the second brightest distant sun in northern skies.

EYES TO THE SKY: Rise to the Hunter’s Moon, morning stars, meteors

Let morning stargazing begin! The darkness of night, when all naked eye stars and constellations are visible, prevails until about 5:35 a.m. this week and 5:50 a.m. at month’s end.

EYES TO THE SKY: Spring Triangle inside the Great Diamond

While venturing out at nightfall to enjoy the asterisms, be sure to appreciate the Crow careening in the south and the full figure of the Lion striding high in the southwest.

EYES TO THE SKY: Planets, crescent moons, Taurus’ third horn, Eta Aquariid meteors

Even faint shooting stars may be visible in dark skies in locations away from artificial light. The peak of the Eta Aquariids is predicted to be before dawn Sunday morning, May 5.

EYES TO THE SKY: Arc to Arcturus, herald of spring. March 10 Eastern Daylight Time

Wherever the Big Dipper is in the sky, simply “arc to Arcturus” to be assured that you have located the second brightest star visible in northern skies.

EYES TO THE SKY: Groundhog, Lion, Valentine and Venus

As societies lose their relationship to nature, the Sun is the “the elephant in the room” during seasonal festivals.

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: Navigating a summer night

Tonight, the 9th, Regulus, the brightest star in the constellation Leo the Lion, is in conjunction with Venus.

EYES TO THE SKY: All out for Venus, Mars, Saturn, Jupiter and spring stars rising

Seeing the rest of the planets visible this spring, especially the spectacle of red Mars increasing in magnitude, requires awakening by 5 a.m. close to a location with a clear view of the southeast to southwest horizon.

EYES TO THE SKY: Twilight planets, summer stars, waxing moon; midnight meteors

As sunlight fades from Earth’s atmosphere and dusk deepens, the golden light of true star Arcturus, summer’s brightest, comes into view above Jupiter.

EYES TO THE SKY: Harbinger of spring Lion, Full Snow Moon, Jupiter and Spica

Every morning during the span of this post, it is worth the effort to be at a location with a west-southwest view an hour before sunrise to see the pairing of Jupiter with Virgo’s brightest star, bluish Spica.

The 2017 Berkshire horoscope

Happy New Year! Start off 2017 on the right foot with some wisdom to guide your year from The Edge's very own soothsayer, Heebie GB. 

EYES TO THE SKY: Mercury, Jupiter, spring stars and constellations

As spring stars and constellations rise in the east and travel the heavens all night, winter’s dazzling stars and constellations are poised to set in the west before midnight.

EYES TO THE SKY: Catch a Taurid, Leonid meteors, and Frost Moon

 November 16—29, 2015 Mt. Washington -- It was just as celebrity astronomy writers had described, except that I was indoors gazing out a picture window...

EYES TO THE SKY: Autumn stars, meteors, Lion jumps over the moon

Around Halloween it is intriguing to think of Arcturus, the second brightest star visible in the northern hemisphere, as the ghost of our summer sun.
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