Sedona is one of a handful of cities on the International Dark Skies Community list. Not only can you see a thick blanket of stars at night, you can even see the Milky Way with the naked eye. May I present Milky Way over Sedona, photographed at 1:00am in the morning in May 2020.
The Milky Way vies for attention with moonlit clouds in the John Muir Wilderness, Eastern Sierra, California. Photographed June 2020.
When Jupiter and Saturn last raced across the sky in tandem, Galileo had yet to publish his famous Dialogo in which he explained the motion of planets around a central Sun. This week, the Great Conjunction of 2020 takes us back to the roots of the Scientific Revolution, when curiosity was once again rekindled in mankind. With the juxtaposition of the crescent Moon this evening, a perfect Malibu sunset was the obvious choice for a setting befitting a millennial celestial event.
