1. NASA Apollo Program Medical Communications Operator Jim calling Earth . . . I read you, Blue Planet. But I’m  a little “spaced out,”...

Bacchus and Ariadne – Guido Reni (Italy, Bologna, 1575-1642) circa 1619-1620. (Crop and constellation emphasis is mine.)   Introduction...

Introduction The Great American Solar Eclipse was two weeks ago. I’ll admit, the effort and experience left me a bit stunned. Now,...

This blog entry is to report on my first real successes chasing deep sky images with my Hestia (a.k.a. Canis Minor) last night. I’m far...

Canine Comparisons I like to tell people my smart telescopes are like good hunting dogs. They identify, track and find the faint traces...

Introduction — April 8 is Coming! I’m detecting a fair amount of anxiety and — frankly — some whining, about the upcoming North American...

It's a New Year! — Ready for a blog posting about time? I’ve been seeing numerous questions online that involve coming to grips with the...

A neighbor of mine actually has a duck boat like the one pictured above and he often parks it outside his sleek, world-class Frank Lloyd...

I’m finally back online after a number of weeks of work on presentations about smart scopes as well as a couple on the JWST. I’m also now...

Well, I'm not exactly going to L2 "literally." If you've wondering where I have been, I have, however, had my head out there for much of...

I will first confess that I have more elaborate blog postings in the works, but I just haven’t been able to finish them this past month....

I’m keen on using my smart telescopes for star parties. This coming Friday there will be a picnic at the “darkest” site in Cook County. I...

J.M.W. Turner, Heavy Clouds Above a Landscape INTRODUCTION: OBSERVING “NOTHING” This week’s blog entry is about “nothing” seen against a...

Three Image Quality Constraints Every Smart Telescope Owner Needs to Know INTRODUCTION This blog entry is about astronomical image...

Galileo -- Our most famous early sunspot observer and theorist. It continues to be a very hot summer on the ground here in the US and in...

Pretty soon I’m going to be making my yearly observation of Pluto. It’s not situated well along my horizon yet, so I’m getting ready. I...

I often get asked, What happens when my smart telescopes’ tech goes obsolete? Or what if a better model pops on the market? What about...

COLOR VISIONS Cats can see much better than we do in low light levels, in fact they can see about two magnitudes fainter if we used terms...

Maybe you don’t feel guilty about your astro imaging post processing (PP) the way Lady MacBeth did for her crime, but sometimes I do. I...

I often see comments from smart telescope users who want to drastically shrink or even eliminate (!) foreground stars in their images of...