Lost Pleiad Observatory

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

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

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...

Comet C/2104 Q2 Lovejoy has been putting on quite a show for observers in the northern hemisphere for the last month, and as the moon begins...

After my first successful night using the Star Adventurer mount ( detailed here ), I wanted to do a more thorough job of learning the ins an...

I have always enjoyed observing comets and have sketched several nice ones over the last decade.  More recently with my foray into the world...

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...

Venus de Milo Venus (the planet, not the goddess of love) is closing in on inferior conjunction - the point when it lies directly betwee...

Over Thanksgiving week I was leading a public observing program at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter and one of the guests asked me what were my m...

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...

I can not believe over a month has gone by since my last blog post...while not good blog form, I have been working almost 7 days a week for ...

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

Today is a good day to get out the solar glasses if you own them and take a look at the Sun.  Sunspot region 11654 is large enough to be see...

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...

With all the excitement regarding the close pass of Asteroid 4179 Toutatis  (see the previous post), I neglected to share that the night bef...

Tonight was a first for the Lost Pleiad Observatory staff (that's me...sole proprietor, operator, custodian and resident trouble maker)....

Tonight I thought I would try something a little easier and I took some pictures of the three Messier open clusters in the constellation of ...