Sky and Rockets

Jupiter and Venus will be 'doing the dance' for the next couple of weeks. Both planets are in the western sky and visible as soon as...

Sometimes things fall through the cracks. So it was with my imaging run of IC 1396. I had collected the 27 hours of narrowband data back in ...

Yesterday evening I took the photograph (below) of the close pairing of the thin crescent Moon and the planet Venus. Image was taken with th...

  Soldiers Delight Star Party - May 16, 2026 Don't miss the next SD Star Party - this Saturday evening! "From Space-Time to Black H...

Observatory Plans Plans for the groundbreaking of the new observatory building, Night Sky Observatory, are almost complete. Hopefully I can ...

Ultrafinitism , a philosophy that rejects the infinite, has long been dismissed as mathematical heresy. But it is also producing new insight...

It's been a long time waiting (almost a month to the date) for my building permit to get approved and issued prior to starting the const...

Soldiers Delight Star Party - April 18, 2026 Don't miss the next SD Star Party - this Saturday evening! " Crisis in Cosmology - aka...

A string of clear, cool evenings in Maryland can only mean one thing - Mikey is imaging again! Here are my latest deep space objects. First ...

From EarthSky:  We just watched a comet die. Comet MAPS (C/2026 A1) plunged through the sun’s atmosphere only 160,000 km (99,000 mi) above t...

Between March 6th and March 9th, C/2026 A1 quickly brightened by almost 1.5 magnitudes, from 12 to 10.5. At the same time, its coma (the com...