Sky and Rockets

QHY10-OSC Received my QHY10 astronomy camera last week and gave it a test run this past weekend.  Took a few more days to iron out the ...

Occultation of the planet Venus With the weather cooperating with a nice clear blue sky I set up mytelescope equipment to capture the moon...

I've been waiting for a clear night with a full moon for the last three months.  Yesterday was payday ... Full Moon - Orion ST80 Sho...

Friday was a great day in Luray.  Clear blue skies, some wind but not too bad. And the temperatures were a bit chilly, but warmed up in the ...

Well the wife and I finally got to go on a well deserved vacation to kick back and relax.  We ended up at the Piney Hill B&B outside of ...

New Horizons Finds Blue Skies and Water Ice on Pluto The first color images of Pluto’s atmospheric hazes, returned by NASA’s New Horizon...

NASA successfully launched a sounding rocket Wednesday evening from its Wallops Flight Facility. The mission is designed to test new technol...

Wouldn't you know it. As soon as I told friends that the clouds would prevent us from seeing the eclipse on Sunday evening, the sky deve...

Last month I was experimenting with imaging the moon through my 80mm guidescope.  The entire moon would not fit in the field of view, so I d...

The New Horizons probe has started it's year long task of transmitting the high resolution images from July's historic flyby of Pl...

Monday was such a great day (clear blue skies) and I was planning on spending the evening imaging some Deep Space Objects (DSOs), that I dec...