This Dark Sky Event makes the most of Summer 2026’s cool, celestial occurrences! We marked this event starting at Noon on Wednesday August 12th, with eyes toward the partial Solar Eclipse over South HaVen, Michigan USA, beginning 1:06 pm EDT, reaching its maximum obscuration at 1:30 pm and ending at 1:55 p.m. EDT. The afternoon will offer Seated Meditation (Zazen), Walking Meditation (Kinhin), Zen Work Periods in the Garden (Samu), and Rest Meditation (Rest Kinhin), as well as a swim in the middle branch of South Haven’s Black River.

The evening offers observing the peak of the annual Perseid Meteor shower in a moonless sky, with viewing from a dark, rural location. Come, contemplate the Heavens as well as the inner life, connect with nature as well as your true nature, and perhaps you’ll share the uplifting feelings of the ancient astronomer Claudius Ptolemy when he said: “I know that I am Mortal… but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the Earth.”