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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

After all, I spent so much on my smart telescopes, why don’t they really have great planetary imaging capability? Well, actually we can...

One of the most frequent areas where I think people might get confused using a smart telescope is how long might they enhance or record....