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Mailbox, February 2023: Poetry Contest

Mailbox, February 2023: Poetry Contest

by Kevin Shank | Feb 1, 2023 | 2023, 02 February, Astronomy, Birds, Contest, Hawks, Eagles, & Kites, Insects & Arachnids, Mailbox, Meteors, Plants & Fungi, Trees

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457 Falling Stars

457 Falling Stars

by Anna Boggs, Rural Retreat, VA | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Meteors

View the November 2022 Nature Friend Magazine Geminid meteor shower. Photo © Dreamstime.com. The December night was clear and bitterly cold. The freezing winter air burned my lungs as I stepped outside shortly after 10:00 p.m. Expectantly, I turned my face to the sky...
From the Editor’s Quill and Scavenger Hunt, November 2022

From the Editor’s Quill and Scavenger Hunt, November 2022

by Kevin Shank | Nov 1, 2022 | 2022, 11 November, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, From the Editor's Quill, Meteors, Puzzle, Scavenger Hunt

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Of Bolides and Birds

Of Bolides and Birds

by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Beetles, Birds, Cuckoos, Flycatchers, Insects & Arachnids, Meteors, Nightjars, Warblers

Bolide with Tau Herculid meteor shower and fireflies. Photo © Cheryl Shank. I didn’t know birds talk in their sleep, but they surely must. About 12:30 a.m. an Ovenbird began to talk. Before long, a Yellow-billed Cuckoo made some comments of his own, too, and he kept...
Of Bolides and Birds

July 2022, End of the Trail: Bolides

by Kevin Shank | Jul 1, 2022 | 2022, 07 July, Astronomy, Beetles, End of the Trail, Insects & Arachnids, Meteors

Photos © Cheryl Shank.
A Fiery Ball

A Fiery Ball

by Freeman J. Martin, 9 | Feb 8, 2022 | Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Constellations, Contest, Meteors, Nature Nugget

In August, Dad decided to take the family to Cherry Springs Park in Pennsylvania, which has the darkest night sky east of the Mississippi River. We ventured out with food, binoculars, tents, our telescope, and a borrowed one.When we got to our destination, we were...
A Fiery Ball

Flying Stars

by Swena Newswanger, 15 | Feb 8, 2022 | 2022, 02 February, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, Contest, Meteors

Here in upstate New York, autumn was long and beautiful. This is December already, and some days are warm enough that even the bees decide to fly. But the other night something else was flying which aroused my interest and required me to lose some sleep.After making...
SpaceX and the Fireball

SpaceX and the Fireball

by Jason Rinehart | Jan 10, 2022 | 2022, 01 January, Articles & Stories, Astronomy, End of the Trail, Meteors, Satellites

SpaceX launch and fireball. Photo © Jason Rinehart. The skies were dark from the Pine Tree overlook on the Blue Ridge Parkway in Virginia. I had come here on Wednesday, November 10, 2021, to photograph the SpaceX, Falcon 9 rocket launch. The launch was to occur from...

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