Nebula from My Front Yard
Some views of a couple nebulas from the last couple nights via my Dwarf 3 smart telescope. Skies in our spot in Seattle are massively light-polluted but, with a...
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Sunspots Through the Clouds
We're having some cloudy late June weather but saw online some massive sunspot regions on the Sun. This afternoon, I noticed things brightening up a bit outside and, on...
Sunspot Regions 4296, 4294, and 4298
Some rather large sunspot regions rotated into view on the Sun this week. Here are a couple photos I was able to capture amongst the typical December clouds in...
Comets Lemmon & Swan
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Moon-Mars Conjunction Through Cloudy Seattle Skies
It was touch-and-go for a bit as I wasn’t sure the event would be visible for us tonight. Yesterday, at the last minute, I restored a used Meade ETX...
Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan-ATLAS)
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Jupiter-Venus Conjunction
Thankfully, social media is aware enough of celestial events to have pointed out tonight's conjunction of the planets Jupiter and Venus. Armed with that info, and some binoculars, a...
Back to the Telescope with Jupiter and the Moon
It's been far too long but I setup the telescope tonight, showed Connie the clouds of Jupiter and the Moon, and snapped a couple photos. Ideally, a couple pieces...
Transit of Venus
The greenhouse heated planetary neighbor of ours, Venus, slid between us and our shared sun today for the last time until the year 2117 -- and I wasn't expecting...