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?"Hello, again. I thought I might share a quick, happy surprise I had the other night. But first a quick hello to my newest subscribers! It’s good to have you! I hope you enjoy these posts about my novels, travels, and astronomical adventures. After weeks of cloudy weather, I finally got a break and took […]
Read more "A Peek at Saturn!"Here are some more attempts to photograph the Moon using my Meade 90 ETX and my cellphone using an adapter. Not the best images but still fun to do. Notice that unlike in the Blood Moon photos, Aristarchus is now at the top of the photos as opposed to the bottom. (Aristarchus is the lone […]
Read more "Strawberry Moon"This is one of my earlier attempts at astrophotography using my Meade 90 ETX. I caught it just before dawn as the Moon was setting and I’m still trying to juggle light balance and focus. The color came in nicely, though, especially once the clouds started to obscure the Moon. You can clearly see the […]
Read more "Blood Moon with the Meade 90 ETX"Last February I found myself getting up nearly every morning before dawn to find the comet ZTF with my 10×50 binoculars. I did eventually find it, and was able to show it to my wife once it had become visible in the evening sky, but afterward found myself wanting a telescope again. I had a […]
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