Nebula from My Front Yard
Some views of a couple nebulas from the last couple nights via my Dwarf 3 smart telescope. Skies in our spot in Seattle are massively light-polluted but, with a
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Sunspots Through the Clouds
We're having some cloudy late June weather but saw online some massive sunspot regions on the Sun. This afternoon, I noticed things brightening up a bit outside and, on
Sunspot Regions 4296, 4294, and 4298
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
Comets Lemmon & Swan
Moon-Mars Conjunction Through Cloudy Seattle Skies
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
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
Jupiter-Venus Conjunction
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
Back to the Telescope with Jupiter and the Moon
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
Transit of Venus
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