I continue to keep the Celestron-11 scope outside for moonwatching, but the seeing quality really goes bad as warmer air arrives with wind and high clouds.  Not good for photography anyway.  The temperature drops to 23 F by 3:00am, and then warms to...

The Moon resided just 3-4 degrees from planet Mars this morning, and I had the Celestron-11 scope functioning and following it across the sky all morning.  Over the hours, it was a good time to watch sunset within Albetegnius and Hipparchus crater,...

The pleasant weather continues at my location, and whereas I was able to observe the Sun only 16 days in all of October, I have observed the Sun all days so far in November - now 8,034 days total.  There were no sunspots at all yesterday seen in the...

It was a very mild night at my location, and before waves of thick cirrus clouds rolled in, I got to observe the waning Moon with the Celestron-11 telescope when the moon’s age is 19 days and 2 hrs old.  The Moon is 3-4 diameters from M-35 in Gemini,...

Planet Jupiter is fast receding from us this month, and the window to observe it is fast closing.  Right now, Nov. 5, it is some 449 million miles from us, and on Nov. 10, it is at east quadrature - 90 degrees east of the Sun, while 457.0 million...