Lost Pleiad Observatory

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...

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 ...

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 ...

Word has spread quickly of the likely Type Ia supernova in nearby galaxy M82 (The cigar Galaxy).  Surely news will continue to flow about th...

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...