Lost Pleiad Observatory

Sorry to steal the tag line from Canon, but the truth is that Ian took these pictures with my Canon T2i, while we were on our recent 2 week ...

Quite humid today here in Tucson, which is a good sign for our parched desert.  Hopefully we will see some thunderstorm action at the Lost P...

Click to enlarge I woke early this morning hoping to get a chance to see the Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the East, but unfortunately th...

If you read my previous posts leading up to and including the Venus Transit, you know that I purchased my first digital DSLR camera 6 days i...

Of note, earlier today (Universal time) the Earth was at aphelion; the farthest point from the Sun in its elliptical orbit. This actually h...

Last day of experimenting with white light imaging for a little while as my schedule will prevent me from doing any early morning soalr obsr...

I wanted to try out a little filtration when taking images of the Sun, as I was having to capture images at 1/4000 of a second which is the ...