Confessions of a Frustrated Amateur Astronomer

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 [...]

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 [...]