From ancient times, stars have helped people tell time, sailors navigate the seas and farmers plant crops. Interest in stars and space ebbs and flows, and it has been on another ascent — a lift-off, if you will — since the recent journey of Artemis II around the dark side of the moon (cue up Pink Floyd).
Although stargazing can be challenging in Spokane because of light pollution that accompanies any city, one doesn’t have to venture far to find a night sky dark enough to create a canvas for stars, planets, meteor showers, the Northern Lights and man-made creations like the International Space Station and LEO (low-Earth-orbit) satellites.
It’s all up there, some visible to the naked eye, some benefiting from a good pair of binoculars and some requiring telescopes of varying power…