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 ...

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...

I am in Los Angeles visiting my sister and her family in advance of some meetings related to work over the next three days (I hope to post s...

The full report and images will come later, but I wanted to quickly share one of the images I took during last nights total lunar eclipse.  ...

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

If you have been watching the evening skies this past month you know that we have had some very nice alignments of Jupiter, Venus and Mercur...

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...

After a good morning yesterday with the Stellarvue 90T, I briefly used the telescope last night to observe the Moon, Jupiter, and the Pleia...

This weekend is the full moon- and this particular full moon which occurs nearest the Autumnal Equinox is called the Harvest Moon .  After w...

While I do not have much energy to spend time observing tonight, I did roll back the observatory roof and take a picture of the Moon with my...

Yesterday saw the passing of an American icon, Neil Armstrong- While I am not old enough to remember his footsteps on the moon (apparently I...

Unless you are nocturnal, you no doubt realize that yesterday many folks on Earth were treated to a very spectacular Annular Solar Eclipse. ...

This Saturday, May 5th 2012 is a Perigee full moon, meaning that the moon will be at the closest point to earth in its elliptical orbit whil...

Last night I went out to the observatory and really had no plan other than to use my TEC 140 to observe Saturn and the Moon.  I decided to c...

Click to enlarge Odds are that if you are reading this blog you know that this morning just before sunrise western North America was tre...

It's true and not an internet hoax...the full Moon of March 19th will be the biggest since 1983!  Approximately 14% larger and 30% brigh...

In just about 36 hours, we will be treated to a rare spectacle when the full moon is totally eclipsed from the Sun, by the Earth's sha...

Here in the "Naked Pueblo" we are somewhat famous for our beautiful sunsets...head pretty much anywhere with a view of the western...