Lost Pleiad Observatory

Last night was the first clear night in several for us here in Tucson and I spent a few hours observing.  In addition to some typical target...

To my surprise tonight, Io was making a transit of Jupiter about the time I started observing tonight.  Naturally, I used the experience to ...

After a solid week of rather cloudy skies we had somewhat clear skies this evening over the Lost Pleiad Observatory.  While there were some ...

One of the benefits of working at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter , is the opportunity to see many things that one would not normally witness dow...

Perhaps the most popular stop on the Catalina Highway as it ascends Mount Lemmon north of Tucson is the Windy Point overlook.  Famous for (w...

Arriving home from work tonight under partly cloudy skies, I did not even bother to open the observatory roof.  This turned out to provide g...

My faithful readers (you two know who you are) have seen that I have been learning to take planetary images of Jupiter and Venus these last ...