Visible Suns

 I did a lot of citizen science observations during my sabbatical last fall. I was especially interested in trying to use my time to make ob...

 This fall I have been on a sabbatical from my teaching and focusing on lots and lots of backyard astronomy.  One of my early observing goal...

This post comes about three months later than it should but, as they say, better late than never. I had an amazing trip to Hamilton, Texas t...

 Back in October I posted about using a disco ball to observe a solar eclipse . It turns out that you can also use a disco ball to safely ob...

It's no secret that I like to use my Unistellar telescopes to track down obscure things and to create animations of them moving in the s...

On October 14, 2023 along a line from Oregon through Texas there was an annular eclipse. The rest of the continental U.S. got to see a nice ...

The most viewed post on my blog from last year was Observing the Sun with an eVscope . Everything about that post is now completely out of d...