Lost Pleiad Observatory

The weather the past few days has been frustrating here at my observatory...very clear skies day and night, with winds gusting on and off to...

Inspired by several time lapse videos that I have seen of astronomical events, ( including this one by Dean Ketelsen  made last week) I piec...

The previous post detailed an annual trip to photograph the Sun setting behind Kitt Peak National Observatory as seen from the Catalina Hig...

Click to enlarge This marks year two that I have participated in a small winter tradition among a few local amateur astronomers-  That i...

Earlier this week I received an email alert from calsky.com (a wonderful site for the amateur astronomer!) that the International Space Sta...

It has been a few weeks since I had a window of opportunity to image the Sun.  I have had a few visual moments the last few weeks but just e...

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...