Sky and Rockets

Well, it had to happen. As anyone who knows about the "Mangieri Cloud", technology and the local Mangieri household don't get ...

“Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.” Where were you 45 years ago when that message was beamed to earth from the Moon?  ...

Last Friday evening was an unbelievable evening for July in Maryland. The temperature was in the low 60's, dew point way low, no wind, c...

So what do you do when the skies are clear and the moonlight interferes with your imaging of deep space objects?  Why, photograph the Moon, ...

Many of us have seen images of supernovae remnants, rings of gas from exploding stars and various other astro-photos of similar star explos...

This past Friday evening the sky conditions were the best they've been in months. Couldn't pass up the chance to try imaging some of...

Here is an image of the Ring Nebula (M57) a small planetary nebula in Lyra. When a star of average size dies, its core abruptly collapses wh...

This Sunday evening and Monday morning offered some of the best sky conditions I've seen in the past weeks.  I wanted to capture comet P...

I've been spending some time checking out my new remote focuser and decided to image M82 to see how much the supernova has faded since M...

After the clouds rolled away late Saturday evening, and it was obvious that Sunday evening would be clear, I rushed home from church service...

With the skies not cooperating very much this year, getting a nice clear night with fairly steady atmosphere is rare, and you have to grab t...