Cleaning day in my house for the keen eyed that's a 4-in achro refractor, 6-in mak newt, 8-in sct and 14 in newt with 3.5 in secondary . I feel like missing something

Mothballing up my scope for spring in NC is always fun. Keeping it pollen free, means catchup time for processing but also I miss using my telescope. I just can't this year! LOOK!

Single raw of last night's moon and Mars occultation

I got it but it's stuck on a non-internet connected digital SLR. Wish me luck

Mars and Jupiter from my homemade 14" newt

My 2024 Best of our Solar System

Happy new year!

Ganymede transiting in front of Jupiter

Not my best work, I can do better!

* Type: Custom Home Built Newtonian
* Aperture: 35.6cm (14")
* Focal Ratio: f/4.5 + 5x TeleVue Powermate at 0.078"/px | 9,109mm EFL
* Camera: FLIR Blackfly BFS-U3-32S4M-C (monochrome, USB3.0)

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Just a quick preview of some Mars photos made into an animation that I took last night

Saturn in some decent seeing

#birds I discovered an owl watching me on a recent hike by the woods near my house

#birds I discovered an owl watching me on a recent hike by the woods near my house

My favorite of the recent comet that I photographed from Raleigh Mac's Lake Johnson on tripod and DSLR #astronomy

I wanted to keep sharing my astronomy passion with my new friends, here's a recent Saturn photo from my 14" f/4.5 Newtonian 🪐🔭 #astronomy #astrophotography

One of my sharper #astrophotography photos of Jupiter this season. 🔭

Love me some #bird photos, here's one I shot with my Pixel7 and a pair of Celestron 7x50 binos

Trying to get the hang of bluesky and trying to find like-minded #astrophotography folks! Here's one of my fav Mars photos from last apparition! Cheers to this upcoming one and clear skies! 🔭

Another social media? Let's see how this goes