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After a few days of heavy rain the skies are clearing up and I can get back to demolition of my observatory to make way for a new micro-version. I…

To make way and provide materials for my new micro-observatory, the old unstable macro-observatory has to go. Demolition began this weekend… As can be seen below, the chipboard has gotten…

After some discussions on Cloudynights.com ATM forum I decided that trying to bend my own plywood would involve a lot of trial and error so I just went ahead and…

Well, I rolled the roof off of my shed last night and noticed that over the winter some of the columns have shifted in the runoff so the 600 lb…

So as the summer solstice approaches and I don’t use my astronomy time in my shed with a 10″ in an NEQ6 taking pictures, it’s time to start working on…

Christian Buil is a wonder. This Frenchman amateur astronomer has been a driving force behind a number of excellent amateur spectroscopy projects and products such as the instruments sold by…

Supernova 2022hrs, discovered by amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki on April 16.619 (14:50h UT) is in NGC 4647, an intermediate spiral galaxy in the constellation of Virgo. He used a 0.5-metre,…

It’s always exciting to try out a new setup for the first time, although the net result is generally a picture of all the work that needs to be done…

After a truly horrible Spring with major snowstorms (>30cm) followed by major rainstorms (>70mm) we’ve finally gotten enough warm weather to melt the snow that was locking up my observatory…