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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Last Thursday we witnessed a partial solar eclipse of the Sun- and for some reason this particular eclipse did not grab the attention of the...

The Sky School that is.  This weekend is our annual training workshop for the graduate student fellows who serve as science instructors at o...

Let's just put it out there up front:  Today, is my 45th birthday.  This week I am at the summit of Mount Lemmon as we host students fro...

One of the benefits of working at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , is the opportunity to see many things that one would not normally witness dow...

Having recently changed career paths into the Department of Astronomy at the University of Arizona, I am often asked by friends and relative...

Working as I do at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , I am often treated to sunset from the 9157 foot summit of Mt. Lemmon.  Whether it is with ou...

Final post in my run of work related posts...but at least now when someone in my family asks "what is it exactly that you do?" I c...

This is the second of three posts that relate to my work at the University of Arizona's Mount Lemmon SkyCenter .  In an earlier post I m...

Lots of exciting news coming out of the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter this week-  so prepare for a small run of blog posts regrading my day job.  ...

Most of you know that I work with the Mount Lemmon Skycenter at the University of Arizona, and this week we had a significant first!  A come...

...It's Saturday night!  I have not written much lately at all about my job as Director of the  Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , however, w...