Hawaii astronomical society held their monthly public star party at Dillingham Airfield near Kaena Point last Saturday. Dillingham is a very dark site, one of the few left on Oahu. The airfield only has 1 runway for light aircrafts.
Usually, about 15-20 club members and about 30 or so general public will show up at the [...]
A friend of mine loaned me his Canon XTi for the weekend so that I could try out a DSLR camera before I make my purchase. I plan to head out to some dark skies on Saturday but I couldn’t wait to test out the camera. So I set it out on my balcony and [...]
Tropical storm Felicia came by last week and gave us some much needed rain. She even parted the clouds a couple of nights ago and gave me a clear sky. I went out to the balcony and saw that Scorpian is starting to hang low on the horizon and I could start to see Sagittarius. [...]