Sky and Rockets

Well here it is. The first full color infrared image released from the James Webb telescope. And it’s awesome! This is a region of the sky ...

NASA The first full color image from the new James Webb telescope will be announced later today. The image, known as “Webb’s First Deep Fiel...

C/2017 K2 (PanSTARRS) is an Oort cloud comet with an inbound hyperbolic orbit, discovered in May 2017 at a distance beyond the orbit of Satu...

With the pier maintenance completed it was time to start imaging again. The Trifid Nebula (catalogued as Messier 20 or M20 and as NGC 6514) ...

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...