Hey, everyone! I hope you all had a wonderful Thanksgiving holiday. We sure did! After the Miami Book Fair we stayed on with family who live in Homestead and spent the holiday with them. At one point I got to take my 10″ Dobsonian telescope out to Flamingo in the Everglades where the skies are […]
Read more "Pyramids on the Moon?"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 […]
Read more "Moon Occultation of Antares"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!"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!"
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