Timed perfectly to coincide with Earth Day and the Lyrid meteor shower, Travel Oregon and Visit Central Oregon hosted the Dark Sky Learning Lab at the Brasada Ranch earlier this week

There is a small constellation of late winter/early spring that is often overlooked by sky watchers. Procyon is this constellation’s brightest star (seventh brightest in the entire sky), which marks the eastern-most vertex of the Winter Triangle. Yes, we’re referring to none other than Canis Minor, the smaller of Orion’s two hunting dogs.

The featured constellation for March is Puppis, a large grouping of stars that resides on the celestial sphere’s southern hemisphere.

We’re adding a blog! We’ll be posting about all things dark skies, guided stargazing, telescope observing, etc. in Central Oregon.