» by jbozeman March 30th, 2009 at 10:46 am » Comments (0)

The Big Country Astronomy Club held it's first annual Messier Marathon last Saturday night at Joe Thompson's dark sky site near Tuscola, Texas. Our strategy was simple; we set up ...more »

» by Jim_Stephens March 11th, 2009 at 5:13 pm » Comments (0)

[caption id="attachment_244" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Two views of the Sun"][/caption] As part of Science Day at USM (that's the University of Southern Mississippi) on Nov. 8, 2008 I held a solar observing ...more »

» by Paul March 2nd, 2009 at 10:05 pm » Comments (0)

I snapped these photos at the Winter Star Party. We see that Steve has just mounted my good friend Rodney's Celestron C11 on a MiniTower! He pulled the diagonal, did ...more »

» by jbozeman March 2nd, 2009 at 1:51 pm » Comments (0)

I just spent a week at the Heart O Texas Observatory north of Abilene owned by my friend Bob Terrell. The equipment is again the Mini Tower, C8, Hyperstar3 and ...more »