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I would like to share some of the coming sky events I am most anticipating for the rest of the century. Times are for our Driftless Area.

So many stargazers have their list of rare astronomical events they hope to see at least once while life is in them.

All five visible planets will be there to greet us before sunrise as we journey from spring to summer this month.

We are in a good place to be wowed by the lunar eclipse coming up on Sunday May 15. This is the third in a tetrad of lunar eclipses in the spring and fall of 2021 and 2022.

Humans have long been skywatchers. We watched the movements of the sun, moon, and stars and learned the cycles of days, months, seasons, and years.

All five visible planets are gathering in the morning skies in the month of March in the dark skies of Driftless Wisconsin.

Winter stargazing in February is a very different world. You can start much earlier with sunset around 5:30pm and the sky fully dark by 7pm.

One cool thing I am already loving about 2022 is that our months are aligning nicely with the phases of the moon. For winter and spring, each month begins with a new moon and cycles through all the phases of the moon.

As you look southwest after sunset this month. Venus is the first and brightest object to emerge from the twilight.