Galaxy Season

This time of year is when many interesting celestial objects start to set too early in the night to take good pictures of. Liz’s favorite, the Pleiades, is already below the tree line by the time the sun begins to set, and is below the horizon by the time it is dark. My own favorites, Andromeda and the Orion constellation, […]

Astro-photography

Part 1: The Bug I told myself a year ago, when I bought my telescope, that I was not going to get into astro-photography. There are lots of reasons not to get into this hobby. It is time consuming, expensive, and very challenging. Furthermore, the photos are not really marketable because NASA already took all of the photos that I […]