Lost Pleiad Observatory

Thursday night I was up at the Mount Lemmon SkyCenter doing some work aligning a telescope with a colleague and we noticed this beautiful th...

Two nights ago I went into our storage room where I keep the astronomy gear and gadgets that are not in my observatory and discovered some n...

I have always enjoyed observing comets and have sketched several nice ones over the last decade.  More recently with my foray into the world...

I spent the better part of this weekend in Denver, Colorado and it seems that while I was gone Tucson went from the humidity of monsoon seas...

The Sky School that is.  This weekend is our annual training workshop for the graduate student fellows who serve as science instructors at o...

Captured a few more images tonight, although the conditions were not nearly as favorable as last night.  Below are two images from tonight...

This weekend I received a new lens that I purchased specifically for taking exposures of the Milky Way, a Rokinon 14mm f/2.8.  This lens has...