It was touch-and-go for a bit as I wasn’t sure the event would be visible for us tonight. Yesterday, at the last minute, I restored a used Meade ETX...

Thankfully, social media is aware enough of celestial events to have pointed out tonight's conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Venus. Armed with that info, and some binoculars, a...

It's been far too long but I setup the telescope tonight, showed Connie the clouds of Jupiter and the Moon, and snapped a couple photos. Ideally, a couple pieces...

The greenhouse heated planetary neighbor of ours, Venus, slid between us and our shared sun today for the last time until the year 2117 -- and I wasn't expecting...

Some rather large sunspot regions rotated into view on the Sun this week. Here are a couple photos I was able to capture amongst the typical December clouds in...

After a few days of work trip meetings and events, I had a morning to get away while still in St. Louis. I e-motored into downtown and enjoyed strolling...

Caught this lengthy meteor fireball in the late summer evening light to the north/northeast of Seattle....

What started out as gentle fog over nearby Elliot Bay became our completely socked in morning here in West Seattle....