The one-year countdown begins for the 2024 total solar eclipse.  It's not too early to advise school boards and businesses to mark 2024 calendars and to consider time off for viewing one of nature's greatest spectacles--a total solar eclipse.

Attend the community engagement event on Thursday, April 13, to learn firsthand about solar farms in general and the Honeysuckle Solar Farm near New Carlisle, IN, in particular.  Free and open to the public.

Join astronomers with telescopes set up in a field at Dr. TK Lawless Park in Vandalia, MI.  Come for an hour or come for the weekend.  See the sky as you have never seen it before!

See Venus in the daytime sky when the crescent moon is nearby as a guide.  In 2023, best opportunities include June 21, July 19 and 20, September 11, and October 10. 

One of the most amazing of natural phenomena occurs on Monday, April 8, 2024, when the moon passes directly in front of the sun.  Start planning now to see the solar eclipse from the path of totality. 

Make a solargraph between the solstices to show the annual path of sun.  With an aluminum can, some duct tape, and photographic film, your pinhole camera will capture a long-duration snapshot of time and place.  The June solstice is a good time to start an exposure.

For astronomy events in our northern Indiana region, see the Michiana Astronomical Society.  Local observing is available from the dark skies of Dr. T.K. Lawless Park in Vandalia, MI.