Visible Suns

Well, it's Labor Day. Summer is officially over and the fall semester has begun. I got in a lot of telescope time over the summer, so I ...

After taking a look at galaxies and then nebulae , it is time now to see some of the star clusters that I have photographed in the last few...

Here's the second of my three initial posts looking at some of my astrophotograpy from the Celestron Origin smart telescope. Today, its ...

It's no secret that I am a big fan of smart telescopes, so I was quite interested when Celestron introduced their new Origin smart teles...

 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...