ASTRONOMY UPDATE: Greetings from Alaska!

[Dennis Mammana]

What can I say about Alaska… the only word to describe it is “Majestic!”  This is my ninth time in the interior, and each time it becomes more and more remarkable.  Tomorrow our group will be taking the Alaska Railroad to Fairbanks—a beautiful all-day journey through the snow-covered wonderland of Denali National Park.  

 

While aurora forecasts aren’t particularly optimistic, the meteorologists are being quite kind.  So whatever Mother Nature stages for us in the heavens should be visible. Temperatures haven’t been too bad either;  21F when I arrived (that’s nearly 70 degrees F cooler than what I left at home).  Fairbanks will be about 25 degrees F colder than that, but anyone who’s ever stood beneath those magical northern lights will attest that it’s all worthwhile!

 

More astronomy news once I return home and defrost…

 

Dennis

 

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DENNIS MAMMANA
www.DennisMammana.com
www.twanight.org