Mars Needs...

Yes, more HyperStar fun! Thursday night, we finally had clear dark night. It was worthy of putting the HyperStar on the Cat. It was worthy o...

Early December last year, I contemplated buying a HyperStar for my Cat.  I made certain that it was compatible by looking in the obvious pla...

This was something that I was looking forward to all of last year.  The conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn on December 21st, 2020, of course....

This opposition of Mars was actually more challenging than that of 2016.  It's always about the clouds, isn't it? With the last opp...

Clear sky last night. Predicting seeing?  Just average.  Well, that is much better than not being able to see the sky at all, I suppose. Sho...

Yet another week of clouds and rain. As I usually do each morning, I checked the astronomy forecast at Astropheric .  It has been pretty tou...

When Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE) was a morning object, I managed to observe it by taking a trek down the road and peering around the neighbor...