Lost Pleiad Observatory

Living here in the USA, things have been a bit surreal over the past year.  As the Great Orange One (GOO) that occupies the office reserved ...

Happy New Year and welcome 2018!  There is much to celebrate!! It is fitting that 2018 started off for me with an astronomical adventure, ...

Going through some pictures this morning and I found one that I took in Portal a couple weeks ago that I thought was worth sharing.  Not lon...

Just back from another weekend adventure out to the dark Skies of Portal, AZ.  Seems that my blog is slowly turning into the Portal report.....

I really do have a great job-  I always tell folks that somehow I married a great hobby with a lot of administrative experience at the Unive...

Time for what is becoming a quarterly tradition...a blog post! In February, I made a trip to the dark skies of Portal, AZ with my good fri...

I just returned from 3 nights attending to my favorite dark-sky astronomy activity...a new moon trip to Portal, AZ hosted by my good friend ...

2065.  That is the number running around in my head this morning...or to be clear, the year 2065.  In 2065, should I still be kicking and sc...

This week saw the Earth swing through the debris trail left by comet Swift-Tuttle, producing the annual Perseid meteor shower.  Prognosticat...

We have lived in our house for over a dozen years and in that time have had all manner of wildlife remind us that we are simply squatters.  ...

Yesterday saw the planet Mercury transit the face of the Sun from our unique perspective here on earth.  Slightly more common than a Venus t...

As we say, a bad night in Portal is better than a good night most other places.  I just returned from 3 nights camping with friends in Porta...

I think I need to make a T-shirt that says "I am not an astrophotographer" mostly to poke fun at myself.  I have no desire to devo...

A shout out to Lady Galadriel for the reference in my post title.  Tuesday night I was up at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter (where I am the Dire...

Several years ago my friend Dean Ketelsen carefully scouted the Catalina Highway to identify a location from which he could take a picture o...

Yesterday, observers in North America were treated to a rare celestial alignment as the waning crescent moon passed in front of Venus.  At a...

This past weekend I spent in Portal, AZ for what was again a spectacular 4 nights of observing with great friends.  The skies are wickedly...

By now, there have been many images of the Total Lunar Eclipse this past Sunday circulating around the internet.  I was leading a public ecl...

No, this is not a post about politics or the Presidential campaigning shenanigans that we are already suffering on a daily basis here in the...

As I catch up at work and attempt to at least get my desktop organized (the Windows desktop on my laptop that is...) I found this image of t...