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Necks Craned 50 Years Later
While we commemorate the first lunar landing fifty years ago, consider the view from Earth, too. In the United States and around the...
Jun 6, 20192 min read


Night of the Solar Eclipse
Though the sun gets all the attention August 21, that's only half the story--or at least half the day. Consider the contributions of...
Aug 9, 20174 min read


Snapshots of Time
The holidays came early for me, and with magnificent gifts. This week I gathered up a dozen small aluminum containers from around the...
Dec 22, 20166 min read


Sun Stops for the Cubs
When the Chicago Cubs won the 2016 World Series, even the sun paused in its trek across the sky to take note. Around the June solstice,...
Nov 5, 20162 min read


Time Starts on the Solstice
How can you record the essence of time? Start with a beer can and duct tape. Photograph the sun's path between the solstices to create a...
Jun 21, 20163 min read


Anniversary Solargraph
Capture time during the Indiana Bicentennial by tracking the sun between the solstices. To celebrate the 200th anniversary of Indiana's...
Jun 2, 20165 min read


New Planet Landscape
Finally. Images beamed back from some bizarre landscape. The surface of Pluto? No, New Horizons did a Pluto flyby in 2015, but it did...
Feb 21, 20161 min read


Anticipating the Moon and Venus
I had been looking forward to seeing Venus astride the crescent moon. Instead, the moon occulted Venus and clouds occulted both. Here...
Dec 7, 20153 min read


Indiana Legacy in the Stars
As Indiana celebrates the 200th anniversary of its statehood, Bicentennial Star reflects on the past 200 years of nights in Indiana. ...
Sep 30, 20151 min read


#PlutoTime Images
New Buffalo, MI #PlutoTime New Buffalo, MI 2015 July 7, 9:29 p.m. EDT Venus is visible, with Jupiter nearby. South Bend, IN #PlutoTime...
Jul 7, 20151 min read