Night Skies
Zodiacal Light from a High-Desert Site in March
The faint cone of scattered interplanetary dust, observed across nine evenings from a turnout on the Mogollon Rim.
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Observatories
Pic du Midi at Two Thousand Eight Hundred Meters: When the Tourists Sleep on the Summit
The Pic du Midi de Bigorre in the French Pyrenees runs an overnight tourist program inside a working observatory. A two-night stay during the May new moon.
Night Skies
Twelve Months of the Milky Way at Cherry Springs
A year of monthly visits to a small Pennsylvania state park, kept by an observer who logged each session in a black Moleskine.