La Pine Observatory

Well the weather surprisingly was clear last night and the air fairly steady so I was able to capture this image of Mars with my old orang...

Taken just after totality began and just before the clouds moved in and obstructed the view for the night.

The weather is starting to clear up but the air is still quite soupy (lots of atmospheric turbulance.) But I thought I would give it a t...

Last weekend I picked up a Bushnell NorthStar 90mm Catadioptric Telescope for a reasonable price of $150 off of craigslist. I bought t...

This morning I captured four astronomical beauties with my small Bushnell NorthStar 1300mm x 100mm 4" Maksutov Cassegrain Telescope...

It finally cleared up enough on March 12, 2014 to shoot the Moon for a few minutes.  This shot, though incomplete,  is actually a c...