La Pine Observatory

This is the third day in a row that the weather has permitted a warm summer evening to scan the heavens! Here is "day 3" of my e...

Two nights in a row of clear skies! Woohoo! Got outside just in time to capture the second crescent moon in a row: I also took anothe...

Yes, it has been a LONG time since the weather and my schedule lined up, more the weather than my schedule, though! So last night I got ou...

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...