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Welcome to my Astronomy page! I've always been fascinated by the stars above for as long as I can remember. Earlier in 2004, I rediscovered my passion when I stumbled across my old 60mm refractor telescope. I quickly bought a new scope and, well, who knows where I go from there! Scroll down this page to see a different section about my hobby.
Thinking about starting your own adventure in star gazing?
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Not only have I rediscovered my passion for observing the moon and planets, I've recently started taking pictures of them! It's still a work in progress, but I've decided to share my images as I make them. Some are pretty good, some are just,...how shall we say it? Let's just say "fun in experimentation". Below is a small Saturn to whet your appetites!
Follow this link for a history of my images,
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So, you've seen my pictures, and are now wondering what I'm using? Since I'm only doing planetary images, it surprisingly doesn't take much! Just about any telescope can take pictures like mine! The thing that helps most (besides patience) is a mount that can track objects in the sky, but even that is not a requirement. Here in this section I list the inventory of what hardware I'm using.... [MORE]
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Here is a quick log of the deep-space objects I've observed so far. Currently, I'm just working on the Messier catalogue of objects. As there are 110 of them, it's going to take awhile! To learn a little about the Messier catalogue and to see how far along I am, continue on here.... [MORE]
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Sky&Telescope's
Telescope primer.
Cloudy Nights Reviews & Forums
Space.com.
Astronomy
Picture of the Day (APOD).
