Lost Pleiad Observatory

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

I am a glutton for punishment.  Not only did I watch/listen to the entire UA vs. UCLA football game last night, I stayed up until nearly 3 A...

I awoke at 4:30 this morning specifically to observe Comet ISON, currently cruising through the constellation Virgo as it nosedives toward t...

Today I returned from LA to the comfy confines of Tucson and my observatory.  As the sun was setting and I was noting the beautiful colors i...

On Jupiter that is!  Typically, the king of planets sports two distinct cloud belts, creatively referred to as the north and south equator...

In an earlier post I mentioned that I have recently been volunteering at the  Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , assisting with the  SkyNights  publ...

It's Friday night, new moon weekend, and the sky over the Lost Pleiad Observatory is covered with high thin clouds...what happened to th...