The Drinking Bird

Just received my new Astronomy Technologies AT106LE refractor (106mm f/6.5, FPL53 triplet). Of course, with it comes the curse of more bad weather (it's supposed to snow for the next three days). Still don't have anything to mount it on (new CGE comin… more »

Recently, the Cassini space probe which has been cruising through the Saturn system made a close pass at the planet's moon Mimas. The probe was able to take a remarkable image showing the moon's most prominent feature: a crater 130 km across. This is… more »

Action photos of the avian drama unfolding in my back yard. more »