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Monument Mountain ninth-graders meet the pros on first Career Day
Great Barrington — By 7:45 a.m. Thursday, April 11th, the Dunkin’ Donuts were disappearing in the faculty lounge at Monument Mountain Regional High School, but it wasn’t a staff meeting that was...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Space walk anniversary, better light for Massachusetts
April 15-28, 2019 Mount Washington — Astronaut Neil Armstrong stepped down the ladder of Apollo 11’s lunar module, “Eagle”; as his boot touched the surface of the Moon, he famously said, “A small step...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Planets, crescent moons, Taurus’ third horn, Eta Aquariid...
April 29 – May 12, 2019 Mount Washington — For delight in discovery, plan to observe many fleeting moments that mark the movement of the seasons and other special events in the sky this week. Beginning...
View ArticleII. Talking with Teens — about substance use
When you talk with teens about substance use, start with understanding. Just because you’re listening, doesn’t mean you’re giving permission or saying it’s OK. This video offers some tips to make it...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Corvus the Crow eyes Virgo’s jewel star, Spica
May 13 – 26, 2019 On springtime evenings in the Northern Hemisphere, extend the handle of the Big Dipper to arc to Arcturus, spike Spica and slide into the constellation Corvus the Crow. We sometimes...
View ArticleIV: Talking with Teens about substance use: Keep the conversation going
Editor’s Note: To view previous videos in this series, click HERE. Keeping the conversation going is key when you Talk with Teens about substance use. You’ll have lots of goals, but the most important...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Spring Triangle inside the Great Diamond
May 27 – June 9, 2019 Mount Washington — While writing my recent column about bright stars in the south at nightfall, I was reminded of patterns those stars shape in addition to the position each has...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Jupiter shines all night. Sun’s longest days
June 10 – 23, 2019 An artist’s concept of Jupiter and Earth at opposition, when Earth passes between the sun and Jupiter. Image courtesy EarthSky.org Mount Washington — A pivotal celestial event occurs...
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YES! You can end the year-end school doldrums — at least at MVRMS
Great Barrington — Young people are inherently prone to asking questions—lots of questions. I might have forgotten this simple fact on Monday morning when, after having been invited by Theresa Girona...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Summer nightlife, Summer Triangle, Jupiter’s triangles, Mercury
June 24 – July 7, 2019 Mount Washington — Upon opening the door and stepping over the threshold into the darkness at solstice time, this stargazer is bathed in wild sounds of trilling toads and tree...
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EYES TO THE SKY: All night planets Saturn, Jupiter. Overnight astronomy holiday
July 8 – 21, 2019 Mount Washington — Tomorrow, planet Saturn arrives at “opposition.” Like Jupiter last month, Saturn is now coming into position opposite the Sun in Earth’s skies. Saturn rises in the...
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EYES TO THE SKY: The Eagle has landed
July 22 – August 4, 2019 Mount Washington — It was a three-day journey from Earth to the Moon for the three Apollo 11 astronauts aboard the spaceship, or command module, Columbia, headed for the first...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Night Lights
August 5 – 18, 2019 Mount Washington — A profusion of celestial lights comes into view these August evenings and through the night. The promise of seeing bright planets, the moon, summer’s brightest...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Starlight, Sirius rising, and the dog days of summer
August 19 – September 1, 2019 Mount Washington —I awoke at 4 o’clock last Monday morning, a predicted peak predawn viewing opportunity for Perseid meteors. Stepping out to the edge of my stone...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Seasonal change written all over the sky
September 2 – 15, 2019 Mount Washington — As September begins, it seems abrupt that the dark of night comes early, the light of day comes late and a new chill in the air reverses embedded routines for...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Protect the night, it is good for you
September 16 – 29, 2019 Mount Washington — As the Sun’s arc shortens in the skies of Earth’s northern hemisphere, we approach equal day and night. Soon after the autumnal equinox, which occurs on...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Amateur astronomers soar: The Eagle Nebula
September 30 – October 13, 2019 Mount Washington — Looking up to the sky, I receive in solitude nighttime’s cosmic darkness awash with infinite stars. During the day, I find myself gazing into the...
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REVIEW: How do you define success?
The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes Us or Breaks Us By Paul Tough Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019 375 pages $22.40 I am at this point convinced that upwardly mobile American...
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EYES TO THE SKY: Rise to the Hunter’s Moon, morning stars, meteors
October 14 – 27, 2019 Mount Washington — I am always giddy at the turning point of the season when red and gold leaves fall by day, darkness falls perceptibly earlier every evening and, during the last...
View ArticleEYES TO THE SKY: Worldview: Origin of our Sun, solar system, ourselves
October 28 – November 10, 2019 Mount Washington — During the dark time of year here in the Northeast, our visual environment is more of starry skies than earthly phenomena. In this “Eyes to the Sky,”...
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