Lost Pleiad Observatory

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

I just finished reading The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larson, and can honestly say that I enjoyed the book quite a bit...coinc...

It is better to be lucky than good!  Yesterday our dog Cosmo tore up a bunch of drip irrigation and the burrow of our desert tortoise tryin...

There is not a lot of observing going on this week as the monsoon weather pattern does its thing...which is fill the sky with dark clouds, b...

I tend to get a little stir crazy during the summer monsoon as far as astronomy goes- I am spoiled living in the desert southwest with many ...

Fifteen hours ago we were in the midst of the best rainstorm we've had all year.  We received about 2.25 inches of rain over two hours. ...

Having a few days between returning from vacation (see the previous posts) and my return to work, I have had a chance to get back to some re...