Lost Pleiad Observatory

For amateur astronomers, spring may be galaxy observing season, yet summer provides the opportunity to observe most of the globular clusters...

Happy Mother's Day to all the moms out there, especially the ones for whom I am about to prepare brunch: My favorite super saucy spouse ...

A couple years ago I owned a very nice 90mm triplet refractor from Stellarvue, which I had sold to pay for some other astronomy gear.  Recen...

Comets are engaging objects to observe, particularly as the come through the inner solar system nearer the Earth and Sun. They can be quite ...

Happy New Year!  Today is a day of celebration at the Lost Pleiad Observatory.  Not only is it the New Year, but it is the third birthday of...

Click to enlarge With some time on my hands today, I opened up my observatory at high noon to take a look at the Sun and see what was up...

I just returned from Portal, AZ where I spent two nights with very good friends observing under some of the darkest skies in the western U.S...

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

I was super busy yesterday as I was leading a program at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , yet early in the day I was hearing reports of a ...

Today is a very exciting day at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter as we will be formally dedicating the 32-inch Schulman Telescope later this aft...

Today was a strange day at work...too many people not getting along with each other; a colleague who had a death in the family; and our depa...

The wonderful thing about having a small home based observatory is that there is virtually no set-up or preparation involved in observing. ...

While NASA may be struggling to budget for future Mars exploration, as Astronomer-in-Chief of the Lost Pleiad Observatory, I remain curious....

My life has been super busy-  In addition to a new job, I have a new telescope(yipee) and next week is my sons Bar Mitzvah for which he has ...

Click to enlarge Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd is back.  Not that it really went anywhere, of course, but I had stopped following this comet w...

Ares(Roman), god of war As January winds down, Mars is becoming increasingly convenient to observe.  By about 11:00 PM local time, Mars ...