Sky and Rockets

A new image from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope reveals a remarkable cosmic sight: at least 17 concentric dust rings emanating from a pai...

Seems like this year has been an interesting one for astrophotography. Either the skies are cloudy, or they are very clear but during the fu...

Certainly not of the level of technology that Captain Kirk discovered on Miramanee's planet, which was ultimately used to save her plane...

Yikes.  It's been almost two months since my last post. Have I been that busy on other things? Why, YES. Work, gardening, my retirement ...

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...