La Pine Observatory

With windy and clear skies (a first for many moons) I was able to capture Comet 41P/Tuttle-Giacobini-Kresak just west of the "Big Dipp...

When the skies aren't clear my eyes go to craigslist to see if anyone has a scope I can't live without. And today I found another!...

It is March 12, 2017 and 7:45 pm DST in La Pine, Oregon and Venus is still shining brightly in the west.   I broke out my little Bushnell N...

If you go out tonight (March 1, 2017) or the next few nights you will see the crescent Moon and then to the right of it what appears to be ...

January 30, 2017 Viewed Mars, Venus and the Moon in the evening sky. Venus is so bright that I was actually able to see it with the unaid...

Well, 2016 is in the photo bucket and there are not a lot of photos in that bucket due to health, home projects, and the darned cloudy and ...

Received a new scope from High Point Scientific this past week. It is a High Point 6" f/4 Imaging Newtonian OTA - 6F4N. The cost was o...