People have been asking me how I like the Celestron Origin. I will be honest. I really like it. I like it enough that I have listed my C8, my Hyperstar and my EQ6 up for sale because I won’t use it much anymore at all, and someone might as well enjoy it.   The only thing I do not like about the Origin and it’s not that big of a deal yet because I think it is more of a training issue than a technical issue is how the dovetail meshes with the mount and tightens. To me it is fla

Our annual Southern Alberta Star Party (SASP) was held this year from Sunday, September 21 st  to Friday September 26 th  at the...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover has collected some interesting results lately. Collecting samples from an ancient dry riverbed in Jezero...

I’ve been going back and forth on this idea for a while now about buying a Celestron Origin. I am going to tell you how I arrived at the...

Last week I attended the Saskatchewan Summer Star Party in Cypress Hills, Saskatchewan. I wanted to go and set up my tent with my big rig...

My lack of originality in naming this is profound, but I wanted people to understand the platform and the subject. It is astronomy talk...

I wanted to write a blog article on this process to hopefully save others some time because I have been down this road twice, and it is...

People ask what the secret is to getting great images.   First off there is no secret. There are processes that we all follow and refine...

I realize there are a lot of amateurs out there that have moved on in their mounts. Whether they are using ASTROPHYSICS and their line of...

When I bought my S50 in the Summer of 2024, I really didn’t hold high expectations for this little scope. It’s a first-generation smart...

Lately there has been a lot of hype in the media about travelling to Mars with the intent of colonizing it. Without naming any specific...

Image By Nrco0e - Own work, CC BY-SA 4.0, Those pesky astronomers have been at it again. They have been out uncovering new things that...

I recently purchased an Antlia Tri-Band Ultra 2 inch filter for use with my Hyperstar 8. I did it based on advice that I received...

How often is it that we are shooting images, only to discover a satellite trail through the image? It’s annoying when you see that but...

Spring is here again, summer begins in one month, and that means that star party season is not far off. We all love those multi-evening...

We’ve been digesting things in terms of millions of years and even billions of years. After a while, the actual value of these big...

Since licensing PixInsight back in the Fall of 2024, I have really been working hard to learn how to use this application. This article...

We probably take for granted that we live on a planet with a warm interior that occasionally breaks through the hardened crust of...

What do dinosaurs and astronomy have in common? Turns out a lot more than we once thought.   Dinosaurs roamed the Earth for about 165...

I've been busy creating a space to store my telescope gear, books, etc. I call it my astronomy den. I wanted a space where I could escape...