Lake Fork Valley Conservancy has started an ambitious project to transform its dark sky designated park into a nocturnal classroom.
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Is Colorado home to an ancient astronomical observatory? The question is testing archaeological limits.
On the winter solstice in 1997, Greg Munson stood beside an unusual basin pecked into the stone along the exit trail to Cliff Palace, grandest of the cliff dwellings in southwestern Colorado’s Mesa Verde National Park. As the sun set on the shortest day of the year, Munson, a former Mesa Verde park ranger and […]
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Total lunar eclipse combines with supermoon early Wednesday morning
By Marcia Dunn, The Associated Press CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The first total lunar eclipse in more than two years coincides with a supermoon this week for quite a cosmic show. This super “blood” moon will be visible Wednesday across the Pacific — offering the best viewing — as well as the western half of […]
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From “Star Trek” to star gazer, Colorado man drops everything and hits the road with a camera and his passion
Charlie Maier found himself with no job and no home as the coronavirus swept across Colorado last spring. Except for the pandemic, he planned it this way. Maier, 35, had known for a while that the comfortable corporate job he had as a data analyst at the Whole Foods office in Denver, while interesting and […]