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...

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...

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...

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...

This past week I’ve began preparing a blog entry on the numbers of stars we can see with smart telescopes, but I had to stop and postpone...

Most astronomy enthusiasts are familiar with the Charles and Ray Eames' film, "Powers of Ten," in which the animation zooms out a factor...

With so much to see with my smart scopes and so little time between the interference of the Moon, clouds and this year's damn Canadian...

Now that I’ve calmed down about the supernova in M101 and galaxy season will be giving way to summer nebulae soon, I keep thinking about...

I take that title back a bit. You really don’t want to get too close to a supernova because there are so many types of lethal radiation...

I’m going to do a more extended blog entry on chasing down supernovas in nearby galaxies in the near future. It will have more of an...

For us smart telescope owners every clear night is like a visit to a smorgasbord. I don’t know about others, but I have trouble...