Just a quick post here… very cold this morning, February 26, 2014. The Moon and Venus were a close pairing in the …

Badly designed and implemented outdoor lighting such as street lights, house lights, business lights and lit signs all contribute to light pollution. …

This galaxy group is known as the M66 Galaxy Group and the Leo Trio Galaxy Group. The three conspicuous galaxies are roughly …

I performed some more test imaging with the ASI1600mm-cooled camera. This time I centered the telescope and camera on M31, the great …

A giant stellar nursery region and more than a 1000 light years wide, the Tarantula Nebula NGC 2070, is an intricate web …

  For summer stargazers and astrophotographers, the Lagoon Nebula (M8) and Trifid Nebula (M20) are definitely in the top 10 for deep …

Meet NGC 7822. This is 29 hours of data I collected over 6 clear nights. This is a Hubble palette image (false …

Here’s an interesting pairing in the night sky. Meet M97 planetary nebula and M108 spiral galaxy from the Messier Catalog of deep sky objects. …

The November cloudy season seems to have made an early arrival here in 2020. With the nights being cloudy and no foreseeable …

It was a great night for Aurora (Northern Lights) sky watchers here in southern Ontario. The CME launched from the Sun towards …

Featured in Sky and Telescope Magazine, October 2016. Returning to Siding Spring Observatory in the southern hemisphere, I decided to image a …

The Crescent nebula NGC 6888 is a faint, diffuse nebula in the constellation of Cygnus. A beautiful star field of the summer …

Nothing fancy but this is a Comet #Lovejoy image I took from #Kitchener, Ontario, during the evening of Jan 16th 2015 @ …

Meet NGC 281, also known as the Pacman Nebula. Can you spot the pacman? NGC 281 is a bright emission nebula and …

As a teenager my interest in Astronomy grew to new levels. One of the exciting things happening in the night sky at …