Sky and Rockets

Yesterday my wife and I needed to drop off our aging poodle Lucy for dental surgery at the Center for Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery ...

NASA's Hubble Space Telescope is back in business, exploring the universe near and far. The science instruments have returned to full op...

With the summer nebulae making their return I need to switch to my wide field refractor to capture these colorful deep space objects. Proble...

Back in July and August of 2020 I imaged M16, the Eagle nebula, which contains, at it's center, what has become one of the Hubble telesc...

June 13, 2021, the Hubble Space Telescope shut down after an issue with a 1980s-era payload computer. Team members continue to work on the i...

Up close and Personal The Juno spacecraft flew closer to Jupiter’s largest moon than any other in more than two decades, offering dramatic g...

M90 - Spiral Galaxy in Virgo M90 - May 13-15, 2021 EdgeHD-11 Telescope - ZWO ASI2600mm Pro Camera LRGB Messier 90 (also known as NGC 4569) i...

Astro imaging using narrow band filters (Hydrogen alpha, Ha; Oxygen-iii, O3 and Sulphur-ii, S2) is a popular part of imaging. Not only does ...

One of the features of my new ASI2600mm camera is the low noise levels compared to other cameras. Recall that the 2600's dark frames typ...

Messier 62 is located in the southern constellation of Ophiuchus. It was discovered by Charles Messier in 1771. It lies at a distance of abo...

NGC 6229 is a very distant globular star cluster in the constellation Hercules. At about 100,000 light years away it is one of the furthest ...