Lost Pleiad Observatory

Last Thursday we witnessed a partial solar eclipse of the Sun- and for some reason this particular eclipse did not grab the attention of the...

Perched high above Hollywood, California is another landmark of American astronomy- Griffith Observatory.  While Mount Wilson has a unique ...

100-inch Hooker Telescope I am in Los Angeles this week visiting my sister and her family and also doing a bit of business related to my...

I am in Los Angeles visiting my sister and her family in advance of some meetings related to work over the next three days (I hope to post s...

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...