Sky and Rockets

It never fails.  You get new astro gear and the clouds will roll in, or in this case, never leave!  Most astrophotographers believe that the...

I've been working to get my backlog of images processed since comet Leonard has moved into the evening sky and is too low to capture fro...

What happens when you mix a diehard Star Trek fan with the Christmas season?  Well for one, you end up with a Star Trek Tree!    This small ...

Been spending some time processing some of my images taken over the past couple of months.  I had imaged this particular star cluster early ...

After many nights planning my attempt to capture Comet Leonard, I ended up with two sets of images that turned out really bad - comet head a...

It wasn't until the evening of November 18th that I remembered there was going to be a partial (almost total) lunar eclipse early on the...

The first eleven days of September offered me some excellent seeing conditions for a change and so I was very busy taking lots of subs for a...

It's not often that I blog about amateur high power rocketry in this space since I essentially have just about ended (but not entirely!)...

Oh my gosh, what a terrible summer season for astrophotography. There was maybe 5 relatively clear nights since July 12 when I completed the...

On the night of August 15, 2021, a very rare alignment of Jupiter's moons occurred. On this night a triple transit on Jupiter with the m...

Last week, NASA’s Perseverance rover shot for a new milestone in the search for extraterrestrial life: drilling into Mars to extract a plug ...