Lost Pleiad Observatory

One reason I am not a serious astrophotographer: Patience. I enjoy taking some casual images of bright targets such as the Sun, moon, or a...

I spent the better part of this weekend in Denver, Colorado and it seems that while I was gone Tucson went from the humidity of monsoon seas...

Milky Way over Chiricauhuas My good friend Jerry and I have been planing to go down to Portal, AZ and do some serious deep sky observing...

Spending this weekend at home, catching up on all the wonderful responsibilities and tasks that accompany being a husband, father and law ab...

Between working many days and nights and generally poor skies on my days off, there have not been many opportunities for me in the past few ...

Let's just put it out there up front:  Today, is my 45th birthday.  This week I am at the summit of Mount Lemmon as we host students fro...

No, this is not a blog post to let you know that Mars will pass closer to Earth than at any point in the history of our solar system in earl...

Last night was the first clear night in several for us here in Tucson and I spent a few hours observing.  In addition to some typical target...

To my surprise tonight, Io was making a transit of Jupiter about the time I started observing tonight.  Naturally, I used the experience to ...

After a solid week of rather cloudy skies we had somewhat clear skies this evening over the Lost Pleiad Observatory.  While there were some ...

Arriving home from work tonight under partly cloudy skies, I did not even bother to open the observatory roof.  This turned out to provide g...

My faithful readers (you two know who you are) have seen that I have been learning to take planetary images of Jupiter and Venus these last ...

Recently, I mounted my 90mm Stellarvue triplet in a side by side configuration with my Celestron 11-inch Edge HD SCT.  This has turned out t...

Everyone loves the GRS (Great Red Spot); a giant storm that has persisted in the Jovian atmosphere since before the time a telescope was fir...

Not a lot of time for words this morning, which for those of you that know me, is a good thing.  Below is an image of Jupiter I took last ni...

The last few days have seen some remarkable images of the sunspots contained within active region 11944 that are making their way across the...

Doing my Sunday morning reading on the internet of all things astronomical, it has come to my attention that it may be possible to observe o...

Venus de Milo Venus (the planet, not the goddess of love) is closing in on inferior conjunction - the point when it lies directly betwee...

When it comes to active regions (AR) on the Sun, this one is big...how big?  By my estimation, AR11944 is larger than Jupiter.  Click on t...

Today marks not only the New Year, but also the fourth anniversary of this blog...and most importantly my 18th wedding anniversary!  Life ha...