Calling all fans! Calling all fans! I will be attending the 2024 AtomaCon this weekend at Trident Technical College on Rivers Ave in North Charleston! Saturday and Sunday, May 4th and 5th! Come meet me and take advantage of a conference special freebie! All of my books will be available for signed copies (except for […]
Read more "Meet me at AtomaCon 2024 in North Charleston!"Hey, Everyone! I’m so excited about the new release of my latest novel, AlCent Sagas Book 2: Revelation! The story follows the continuing adventures of James Van Wert in colonial Alpha Centauri. Many of you have been asking me when the next book is coming out and it’s finally out on Amazon for both print […]
Read more "AlCent Sagas Book 2: Revelation is now released on Amazon!"Recently while in West Virginia, we visited the New River Gorge Bridge and found out that it’s now part of the US Park Service! We’ve been over this bridge many times, and have even stopped to check out the visitor’s center, but on this trip we took some time to see much more. The views […]
Read more "New River Gorge Bridge"Recently I watched the amazing documentary “Blue Planet Red” and found it a mind blowing experience! This award winning video by Brian Dobbs presents compelling evidence that life might have existed on Mars eons ago, and may exist in some form now. Stunning photographic evidence coupled with extensive interviews of scientists from NASA and other […]
Read more "Was there life on Mars? Could life be there now? Blue Planet Red"Recently my wife and I were able to visit the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum in Weston, West Virginia and it was a real eye opener! The facility was built like a fort, as it was once thought that architecture could have “curative effects” for the patients. Inside was even more impressive! There was much to see […]
Read more "Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum recent visit!"Back around 2000 when I first started worldbuilding the Alpha Centauri system for the AlCent Sagas series, astronomical knowledge of the binary star system was limited to the movements of the stars themselves. But now with the advent of the Kepler space telescope, as well as new methods used by ground based telescopes, exoplanets have […]
Read more "Exoplanets of the Alpha Centauri System"So I was doing some exploring on the Moon with my new Explore Scientific 10″ Hybrid Truss Dobsonian telescope and was amazed by the details. These first pix, taken by holding my cellphone up to the eyepiece, hardly do the views justice! I felt like I got my shoes dusty on the Moon. I see […]
Read more "First Moon Photos with New 10″ Dobsonian!"As I mentioned in my novel Mariner Valley, many of the bases on Mars were built over underground water deposits that facilitated human settlements. Now, thanks to the Mars Express’s MARSIS radar a major deposit has been found under the surface in the Medusae Fossae Formation. What I had supposed to be a necessity for […]
Read more "Underground water deposits found on Mars!"So after the success of acquiring my Meade 90 ETX, I got a bad case of aperture fever and started looking. As some of you may already know, aperture fever is when you’ve had a taste of astronomy and suddenly want a bigger scope! The ETX is great for the Moon and planets, and some […]
Read more "Severe case of aperture fever results in a new scope!"Congratulations to JAXA and the Japanese people for this historic lunar landing! This makes Japan the 5th nation to successfully land a spacecraft on the Lunar surface, following closely behind India’s recent historic Lunar landing with their Chandrayaan spacecraft. And the new space race is on! Although the SLIM (Smart Lander for Investigating Moon) spacecraft […]
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