It was great to be invited back to participate in another Virtual Star Party. With COVID-19 making in person gatherings impossible it was nice to share a love of the sky with people via the internet.
It’s been said that if you’ve seen one globular cluster then you have seen them all. Certainly, at first glance, this can seem true. The Milky Way and other large […]
This is my next to last image from the observatory in West Virginia. While I was working on the M45 image I acquired data on the cone when the moon […]
Messier 45, also known as the Pleiades, the Seven Sisters and Subaru among many other names is perhaps the brightest open cluster in the sky, at least in the northern […]
I was honored to be asked to present to my home club, the Northern Virginia Astronomy Club for the February meeting. My presentation, “Finding Light In The Dark” was an […]
The Crab Nebula (which looks nothing like a crab in photos) is one of the iconic nebulae in the night sky. It’s even the first entry in Charles Messier’s famous […]
The weather finally cooperated to allow for another star party and despite a computer crash for me right at the end it was a successful event! We were able to […]
While 2020 was a challenging year in many respects, it was a pretty good year for astrophotography. In this video, I look back at the images I was able to […]
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