Author: Cynthia Hansen Zehm

August 27 to September 3, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars  Evening: Mercury, Saturn We cross the bridge from August to September this week, moving ever closer to Autumn Equinox and summer’s end. Meanwhile, a big and bright “super” full Moon comes to fruition on August...

Alacazem               by Cynthia Zehm                       August 20 to 27, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Venus, Mars         Evening: Mercury, Saturn Here we are, approaching the end of August. In some neighborhoods, school bells ring and classrooms are filled with students. Teachers are back to work. Football practice and pre-season NFL...

August 13 to 20, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: none         Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn I finally got on my motorcycle and took a ride. Yeah. The other day I was running around, feeling desperate. So much to do and not enough time to do it. The internal dialogs...

August 6 to 13, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn The last edition of the Telluride Daily Planet Watch ran a cover story entitled “Stars Unseen: Visibility of the Night Sky is Rapidly Decreasing in America, but Advocates in Southwest Colorado are Trying...

July 30 to August 6, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: none  Evening: Mercury, Venus, Jupiter Once in a Blue Moon… “The phrase “once in a blue moon” dates back 400 years and originally meant a rare of dubious event. In the 19th century, a Farmers’ Almanac editor used...

July 23 to 30, 2015   Visible planets: Morning: none   Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Last night on the news I saw that NASA has discovered “a planet at the right temperature within the habitable [Goldilocks] zone, and only about one-and-a-half times the diameter of Earth, circling a...

July 16 to 23, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: none  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Light and dark. Day and night. Man and woman. Hot and cold. Love and hate. Faith and fear. Good and bad. Good and evil. Evil? Our world is a world of polarities, opposites, forever...

July 9 to 16, 2015 Visible planets: Morning: Mercury  Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn Here we are, moving through summer. The wild, wonderful 4th of July holiday has passed. Our hearts have felt the power and glory of sizzling summer days and enchanting summer nights. Flowers blossom...

July 2 to 9, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury   Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn It’s hard to believe it’s already the 4th of July. Wow! Time is moving at warp speed and it seems like everyone is busy, busy, busy. Busy at work, busy on vacation, busy...

June 25 to July 2, 2015  Visible planets: Morning: Mercury Evening: Venus, Jupiter, Saturn If you haven’t noticed the celestial event happening in the western twilight sky for the entire month of June, perhaps it’s time to take a look. Our solar system’s two most brilliant and...