News and Opinion from Sisters, Oregon
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Throughout the months of January and February the sun has been slowly drifting northward in the sky. At 2:58 p.m. PDT on Wednesday, March 20, it will reach the celestial equator as the season changes from winter to spring in the Northern Hemisphere. The event is known as the vernal equinox and results in roughly equal amounts of daylight and darkness in a 24-hour period. Besides bringing with it the prospect of warmer weather, spring signals changes in the night sky as well, p... Full story
As the world exercised the New Year's Eve tradition of bidding adieu to the old year and welcoming in a new one, many of us look forward to 2019 with the hope that it will be filled with joyful and uplifting experiences. Indeed, some of these exciting events will take place in the night skies of January, such as a meteor shower, a lunar eclipse and great views of some bright planets. But first a backward glance to December 2018 is in order. On December 16 comet 46P/Wirtanen,... Full story
As the snow piles up and the New Year begins, January brings beautiful night skies to Central Oregon. January is a very special month astronomically for containing the Quadrantids meteor shower, which is the first major meteor shower of the year. Usually active between the end of December and the second week of January, the Quadrantids peak late the night of January 3 and early morning of January 4, with up to 40 meteors per hour at its highest point. The moon at its first... Full story
