September 23, 2020
There remains much beauty to be seen in 2020. Looking away from earth after sunset, you can witness a quiet spectacle unfolding in the twilight. As the planets Jupiter and Saturn gradually close the gap between each other, they collectively glide toward the southwest...
September 19, 2020
Elections make one thing clear. While Democrats and Republicans alike cite "our common American values” as if they are ubiquitous and uniform, how we implement those values takes divergent forms.
For example, many people support STEM education with its emphasis on scien...
July 11, 2020
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...
July 10, 2020
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....
July 1, 2020
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...
July 1, 2020
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...
June 25, 2020
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...
June 25, 2020
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.”...
May 16, 2020
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...
May 12, 2020
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...
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