GRAND PRIZE WINNER Golden Feather , Pam Dorner "After watching a great-horned owl family near home, I became familiar with their hunting habits. The father owl loved to hunt for bugs on woodpiles at…
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PAM DORNER HAS ALWAYS ENJOYED the outdoors, from days spent playing in the creek near her childhood home in North Carolina’s Blue Ridge Mountains to walking the Río Grande bosque across from her house…
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A FORM OF ASTROPHOTOGRAPHY that’s popular among more serious amateur astronomers is taking photos of distant objects in space. Retired aerospace engineers Lori and Barry Flansburg take pictures of…
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WAYNE SUGGS HAS HONED HIS EXPERTISE in night-sky photography over 48 years, including eight as a workshop instructor. “When I was 14, I set up my Nikon FM in the forest and used flashes and would just…
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FOUNDED IN 1951 by Pluto discoverer Clyde Tombaugh, the Astronomical Society of Las Cruces holds downtown moon-gazing events, monthly dark sky gatherings at their Walter Haas Observatory in Leasburg…
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AFTER 22 YEARS AS A GUIDE to New Mexico’s night sky, Peter Lipscomb remains enchanted with what he calls the most ancient of all natural beauties. A self-taught astronomer and award-winning…
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COSMIC CAMPGROUND Alma Forty miles from the nearest significant source of electric light, the 3.5-acre site was the first International Dark Sky Sanctuary in the U.S. and is still just one of 17 in…
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AS THE PAJARITO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION CENTER’S (PEEC) planetarium manager, Elizabeth Watts leads stargazing and full moon hikes that teach people how to enjoy our skies after dark. “One of my goals…
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FIVE YEARS AGO, during a Perseid meteor shower in August, my husband and I spent our first night at Cosmic Campground in the Gila National Forest. We’d planned the visit ever since DarkSky (formerly…
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