Springtime is Galaxy Time

Trying out my new camera on some springtime galaxies. more »

Adieu, Orion, Take 2

I fiddled with last week's M-42 a bit more and cropped it a little closer. Although it's a bit noisier, I was able to coax out some more detail. Results below: more »

Adieu for another year, Orion

I don't like the cold. Unfortunately, one of the showpiece nebulae in the northern hemisphere, Messier 42, also known as the The Great Orion Nebula, is pretty much a winter denizen. Sometimes, we get a nice day early in the year that allows comfortable… more »

Mercury ... Setting?

[video:youtube:_hpJQXnnIto]More sunset time-lapse video from Sugar Grove. There haven't been too many really interesting sunsets, so I let this one go a little longer and ended up catching Venus and Mercury setting. Unfortunately, the video loses so… more »

If you can't beat 'em, join 'em

Instead of sitting around complaining about the clouds, I finally just went with the flow... more »