La Pine Observatory

The clouds were gone! For the first time in ages (ok, maybe three weeks, at least since I did some truly deep sky imaging ) I was able to g...

It started out to be a good opportunity to do some astrophotography last Saturday evening so I rushed what I thought was all I needed out t...

Found an old Logitech webcam and thought, why not? So I removed it's lens, found a Canon rear lens cap, drilled a hole in the middle o...

January 19, 2015 Canon t3i body, 250mm, f/5.6, ISO 800, stack of three 2 minute exposures

This is a single shot (not stacked) of the comet last night. The tail was really extended! Can't wait to stack a few of my shots to see...

Surprise! The skies cleared Wednesday night just long enough to capture Comet Lovejoy 2014 again. I was not expecting clear enough skies fo...

This is the result of stacking 31 - 30 sec exposures with my Canon t3i piggy backed on the Celestron C8, using the zoom lens set at 250mm @...