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Keep it up, State Rep. Davis!

It is great to see her building upon Smitty Pignatelli’s excellent work in improving emergency medical/ambulance services, and vital for the Berkshires with its aging population.

EYES TO THE SKY: Summer Solstice, June 20, 2020

Outdoors, we experience the majesty of the Sun’s trajectory from sunrise at its extreme northeast reach, climbing to what seems to be the top of the sky at midday and then arcing to set at its extreme northwest position on the horizon.

Alan Chartock: Beware fun in the sun

While I love several-mile walks on the beach, I have come to have real questions about the sand and sea.

Illuminating the Hidden Forest, Chapter 36: Microclimates

March, after all, is a time of transition, and it’s in subtleties of difference that the microclimates of human ecologies emerge.

EYES TO THE SKY: Sun’s New Year, dawn and dusk planets

At nightfall, orange Deneb Kaitos, of the faint constellation Cetus the Whale (or Sea Monster), is clearly visible to the left and above Fomalhaut.

EYES TO THE SKY: Visit the wilderness – look up to the sky

The preservation of the world depends on each person’s recognition that in wildness is the preservation of a robust self.

EYES TO THE SKY: Venus and Saturn, moon and meteors, Winter Solstice

Even though moonlight this year will overwhelm the light of many Geminid meteors, begin to look skyward every night at about 9 p.m., facing away from the moon.

EYES TO THE SKY: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Moon at dusk. Mars, Mercury dawn

As we approach the very shortest days of the year, the times of both dusk and dawn seem to belong more to daytime than night.

EYES TO THE SKY: Planet Mercury crosses Sun today, Venus and Jupiter meet on the 24th

The next Transit of Mercury visible in its entirety from our location will be in 2049.

EYES TO THE SKY: Protect the night, it is good for you

The haze that more or less obliterates – especially in towns and cities – what would be a clear, awe-inspiring, star-filled sky at night, is slow to be recognized for what it is: a smog of light pollution.

EYES TO THE SKY: Starlight, Sirius rising, and the dog days of summer

The summer return of the Dog Star is known as Sirius’ heliacal rising, an astronomical term indicating star rise close to sunrise.

EYES TO THE SKY: All night planets Saturn, Jupiter. Overnight astronomy holiday

All summer, Saturn will be visible at least until midnight, before setting in the southwest as the Sun rises in the northeast.

EYES TO THE SKY: Summer nightlife, Summer Triangle, Jupiter’s triangles, Mercury

Whereas Altair’s magnitude remains constant going forward, Mercury dims and, of more significance, sets a minute or two earlier every night this week.

EYES TO THE SKY: Jupiter shines all night. Sun’s longest days

It will be about an hour after sunset, when the sky darkens, that unaided eyes will first observe the great planet above the southeastern skyline.

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: Space walk anniversary, better light for Massachusetts

While the world celebrates the 50th anniversary of the July 20, 1969, Apollo 11 moon walk – and we are continually awed by the results of space exploration since – it is sobering to learn that in 85 percent of locations on Earth, only a few stars are visible when looking up to the sky at night.

NATURE’S TURN: Ready to spring

Every day it seemed that the alternation of warm days and freezing nights would end; nights would moderate, allowing the ground to thaw.
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