Sky and Rockets

If you had to pick one night for watching the 2017 Geminid meteor shower, it’d probably be December 13 (morning of December 14). The nights ...

During the later part of November when we had some nice run of clear, moonless nights, I imaged a lot of DSOs (Deep Space Objects).  Finally...

Elon Musk  (SpaceX) tweeted a few days ago: "Payload will be my midnight cherry Tesla Roadster playing Space Oddity. Destination is M...

A team of researchers from the French Aerospace Lab and at the Côte d'Azur Observatory working on France's MICROSCOPE satellite pro...

If you tried to start a car that's been sitting in a garage for decades, you might not expect the engine to respond. But a set of thrus...

Early Thanksgiving day morning I imaged a favorite star cluster of mine, the Pleiades or Seven Sisters. The Pleiades, also known as Messier ...

I just noticed that a good portion of my past images have not had the correct dark frames processed on them. This means that thermal noise f...

A few nights ago my main telescope mount started to act erratically. It would swing uncontrollably in the RA axis and resetting power didn...

M77, October 20, 2017 EdgeHD-11, f/7 39x180sec at -20C  QHY10 Camera Messier 77 (also known as NGC 1068 ) is a barred spiral galaxy ...

With the string of nice clear nights recently, I finally got a chance to spent a good amount of time repairing both my mounts and then imagi...

I've been watching the local weather forecast and the 'Clear Outside' forecast for a couple of days, and ... is it possible ... ...