Moon Occultation of Antares

James here again! Excessive cloudy skies lately got me looking over some of my old astrophotography attempts from last year when the skies were better. I found these from a year ago and I remember how amazed I was watching this event through my 10” Dobsonian telescope. The subject was the Moon moving over to […]

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Back from the Enchantment Con!

Hello, everyone! I’m back from the Enchantment Con which was held at the Glass Factory in Jacksonville, FL! We had a blast and it was good meeting so many new fans and friends. But it was a hot one, as lightning had struck the building two days before knocking out the air conditioning. But everyone […]

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Martian Sunset

As NASA released this image of a Martian sunset from the Curiosity rover, it reminded me of a scene in my sci-fi novel Mariner Valley when the main character Ben O’Ryan views a Mars sunset from a place north of Vallis Marineris. Read the excerpt below – “It has been said, and generally agreed upon […]

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Aerostat Development

Hello again! It seems that every time I go to a sci-fi conference, people always ask me how I created the images and got the ideas for the various spacecraft, space stations, and other assorted vehicles for my novels. I’m happy to explain it to them there, but I also figured there might be more […]

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