While I’ve been having a lot of fun with the dobsonian telescope I built, you really need an equatorial mount with tracking for astrophotography. I spent a lot of time over the last month or so trying to decide exactly which scope and mount I wanted. I finally got an Explore Scientific ED-80 Triplet APO… Read More »
On May 9th Mercury made a transit across the Sun, meaning it passed between the Sun and the Earth. This only happens about 13 times a century, with the next transit on November 11th, 2019. Typically this takes several hours and we were fortunate to have clear skies for the first few hours. Mercury is… Read More »
I spent a fair amount of time in January learning everything I could about astronomy and building my barn door tracker to try my hand at some basic astrophotography. By mid-February I realized that I wanted a telescope in time for the Messier Marathon in early April. I discovered that amateur astronomers had been building… Read More »