Sky and Rockets

The new pier pads have been completed and the telescope mount re-assembled. I was able to spend a few hours recalibrating and realigning the...

As reported in my previous blog, I have been having problems with moles digging in under my telescope pier. I finally found the time to make...

With the moles digging in under my telescope mount, it has finally got to the point where I need to dismantle my telescope setup and constru...

Well the potential meteor storm didn't pan out - not that I was surprised.  But I did have the telescope out imaging that night so I was...

On the night of May 30-31 there may be a new meteor shower - and it might be a big one! Meteor showers occur when the earth passes through t...

Late Sunday evening, May 15, 2022, the Moon will slip into the earth's shadow for one of the best total lunar eclipses in a long time.  ...

Back in March I posted about a new comet discovered on 26 July 2021 by the Pan-STARRS sky survey that looked likely to be a naked-eye object...

It's amazing how the relative size of our sun and our moon are almost exactly the same, and because of that eclipses of the sun are very...

The Collider Detector at Fermilab Something is just not right with the mass of the W boson - it's just a bit heavier than expected. How ...

Working off my backlog of imaged deep space objects, I present the Spider and the Fly in narrowband and broadband combined.  Well, if you pa...

C/2021 O3 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet, discovered on 26 July 2021 by the Pan-STARRS sky survey. It will come to perihelion (closest a...