Summer gives skygazers a nice opportunity to watch an approaching nighttime spectacle unfold.  In mid-summer you can find brilliant Jupiter with fainter Saturn down and to Jupiter's left in the southern sky around 9 PM. 

The following illustrations depict...

TIME

It's about time.  Arcs of light trace the diurnal path of the sun for the first six months of 2020.  Each curve of the solargraph denotes a day's timeline.

A tree in the foreground interrupts the solar paths, with low arcs in the winter and high arcs in the summer....

Paper calendars took a hit in 2020.  Typically, the scribble of spontaneous social gatherings would be wedged between the surety of long-range plans.  The printed layout would frame anticipated life, anchored seasonally by signature images-of-the-month. 

Six m...

The skies of summer give skygazers a nice opportunity to watch an approaching nighttime spectacle.  Observers in July can see brilliant Jupiter with Saturn down and to its left rising in the southeast before  midnight.  By the December solstice the pair will have moved...

In a single image, how could you capture the first six months of 2020 with its global changes?  Several solargraphs mounted from the 2019 December solstice through the 2020 June solstice reveal that passage of time.  Here are three initial results, with the solar arcs...

Application Deadline: July 10, 2020

Customers of Indiana & Michigan Power (I&M) could slice their electric budget through a grant opportunity “for community, educational, religious, and non-profit organizations who primarily serve low income households or individuals.”...

For a May 15, 2020, state meeting of the Great Lakes Planetarium Association (GLPA) I will present a workshop on making solargraphs.  Images for the Zoom meeting will be selected from the slide set Solargraphs--2020 Vision.  The abstract for the workshop, titled Step 1...

In late December 2019, several people around South Bend, IN, used duct tape to secure 16-ounce aluminum cans lined with black and white photographic paper at their respective places.  Around the 2020 June solstice, they will recover their solargraphs, each a personal t...

Now, while much of the economy and nation are idled, is a good time to quantify the darkness of the night sky.  Seize this opportunity to get under the stars and reconnect with the firmament. 

For persons around South Bend, IN, I suggest we concentrate on one const...

Here’s my Apollo 13 boot print--the one that never stepped on the moon. 

Go back 50 years and imagine those five days in isolation, punctuated by the calm utterance, "Houston, we've had a problem."  What the astronauts gave us then was courage in a time of national need...