Sky and Rockets

Well the skies finally cleared for me to attempt to photograph the new supernova in the Cigar Galaxy, M82. My equipment was acting a bit fin...

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the Opportunity rover's exploration of Mars. With a planned mission of only 3 months, NASA, and the ...

Check out the gizmag report on the potential for a new type of battery. Sounds too good to be true.

Comet-chasing probe wakes up, calls home The European Space Agency's comet-chasing Rosetta spacecraft woke up, warmed up and called h...

Spent some quality time with my telescope taking advantage of the clear sky on December 27-28. Yep, another "all-nighter", but the...

Wishing everyone a very Merry Christmas.

Here is M35 with some corrections to show proper star colors. Still researching into why the color shifted to the yellow in the original ima...

Hmmm ... after posting my first astro photos of star clusters a few nights ago I started thinking about the color of the stars in M35. As a ...

Astro-Imaging of Star Clusters December 10, 2013: With the weather clearing after dropping three more inches of snow to add to the seven w...

Comet ISON has come and gone, but lovely Comet Lovejoy (C/2013 R1) is still going strong. It is now at or near peak brightness, and well pl...

Well it looks like in the battle of Fire vs. ISON, the fire won.  Apparently the sun's corona was just too much for the small nucleus of...