Lost Pleiad Observatory

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

July 16th marked Beth's 50th birthday...and we have been celebrating all summer in various ways.  For the first time, Beth planned to jo...

I spent the past week in Del Mar California with my family (another longer post to follow), and while there devoted some time to playing wit...

If you have been watching the evening skies this past month you know that we have had some very nice alignments of Jupiter, Venus and Mercur...

I spent the weekend leading a group of students visiting the UA Science: Sky School up at Mount Lemmon.  On Sunday morning at sunrise some ...

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

Today I returned from LA to the comfy confines of Tucson and my observatory.  As the sun was setting and I was noting the beautiful colors i...