Thursday, September 26, 2019

Rekindling the dark romance. Saratoga Gap rural deep sky session 20th August 2017

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It has been a long while since I have posted a blog about observing. Call it apathy, call it slacking off, but I have been doing some casual...
Wednesday, September 25, 2019

It has been a while. My trip back to my me night sky place..... Down under

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Where do I even begin. My love affair with the night sky began more than three decades ago. As I grew from a teen into adulthood, the fire n...
Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Let the good times roll. Summer spectacles, at their best!

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Time sure does fly. This is my 6 th summer in the northern hemisphere. As in Australia, this also happens to be the best time of the ye...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Saratoga Gap Report 30th April 2016

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My first dark sky trip since the end of last year. Yes it has been that long, 4 months long (well 5 if you factor in my year-end holidays ba...
Tuesday, November 10, 2015

The quest for the deep...hunting Stephan's Quintet and the Deer Lick Galaxy's fleas in Pegasus

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"Annotated deep field of the Deer Lick and Stephan's Quintet Galaxy Groups" Prelude One of the things I set out to do a...
Monday, November 2, 2015

Astro nostalgia: My vintage scope collection

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Isn't it funny how a lot of our life choices are dictated by a certain time point in our development. For me, I seem to be stuck in an e...
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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Let's talk about planetary nebulae!

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When I first got back into visual stargazing in 2001, one of the objects that was top on my list to re-discover and re-observe with my then ...
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