La Pine Observatory

Today was a preparation day at the observatory for CLEAR SKIES ! I jimmy-rigged an electric motor focuser so that I don't have to touc...

As I mentioned in my previous post , there is going to be a total solar eclipse of the Sun that will be visible here in the Northwest, and...

Yes, the northwest is going to be blessed with another total solar eclipse on August 21, 2017 ! The last one was Feb. 26, 1979 , the path ...

It was a fairly cloudy night when about 10 amateurs gathered in downtown Bend, Oregon to chat about our common interest in astronomy. It wa...

I sold a number of my older telescopes just before Christmas in order to purchase a Celestron NexStar 4SE telescope . I wanted a "grab...

Well, after about a three month hiatus, the skies cleared just enough on the morning of January 20, 2016 for me to capture Comet Catalina, ...

Nothing special about this image, just the first I have taken with my Celestron Goto 8i SE scope. I am just getting used to it and learning...