I was in Yellowstone for a week and stayed in West Yellowstone most of the time. They did not exaggerate one bit when they call Montana “Big Sky” country. The skies are blue, cloudless and you almost see from one end of the horizon to the other end. I spent a few nights outside with [...]
After the colossal failure of the webcam experiment, I looked for a easier astrophotography alternative. All the pictures I took so far uses the afocal method. Afocal is nothing more than holding a camera up to the eye piece where your eye should be and taking a picture. Its the crudest form of astrophotography but [...]
The first telescope sucks, it is time for another one. I spend a few days reading everything I could about starter scopes. The consensus seems to be the Orion XT series. They’re cheap and gives you a good size primary mirror. The down side is that astrophotography will be impossible because it is a dobsonian [...]
I wasn’t going to get into amateur astronomy until I retire. I’ve joined a local astronomy club and went to their star parties. I’ve looked through their telescope and was fairly unimpressed. It wasn’t that their scope was bad, it was that my expectations were out of line with reality. I remember seeing Jupiter and [...]