As volunteers at Theodore Roosevelt National Park, we get to help with their astronomy festival (Dakota Nights) every year. This year’s event is a virtual star party. A number of volunteers submitted projects. Here is a link to see what staff and volunteers accomplished: https://www.nps.gov/thro/learn/nature/dakota-nights-festival.htm
We have just about captured all of the Messier objects with our Hyperstar imaging setup. We decided to keep the images in a Facebook album called: Dark Sky Images. We hope you enjoy the newest images. Feel free to use the album for education and/or enjoyment.
We did not think the Grand Canyon was going to open during our visit to the area, so we took a 45-minute helicopter tour from the South Rim to the North Rim and back. It was truly spectacular. Here is a a video clip of the moment we actually passed over the South Rim: It …
This year, our plan was to leave Tucson and see the national parks from Arizona through Utah and into Montana. We planned to boondock all summer long outside of the different parks. Like everyone else, however, the quarantine has changed our plans. We thought it best to hunker down at the Tucson Lazydays KOA Resort. …
In the last few weeks, we have witnessed so much anxiety and fear about Covid-19 on social media from those within the RV lifestyle. We wanted to say something positive about the freedom we have as off-grid RVers. That freedom starts with the core of our power system: Battle Born Batteries.