The Sun finally rises above the cloud at 7:42 am (binocular projection) Click on this or any image to embiggen for greater viewing pleasureNear maximum eclipse, 8:15 am. Taken through my 4" Newtonian with a 30 mm Plossl eyepiece and a Ca...

7:00 am, Kids lunches packed, setting up scope and binocs, cloud squats on the horizon7:15 am, cloud covers the sun7:30 am, cloud still over the sun, but thin enough I can see the chip out of its side through the sun filt specs

Comet C/2011 L4 PanSTARRS taken with iTelescope T14 on 8 May. This is a stack of 8 x 120 sec exposures stacked in ImageJ and then a median Z-project taken.Not bad for a first pass, I've got a few more images to stack and play around with...

Annular Eclipse as seen from Tennant Creek at maximum eclipse, 8:48 am ACST on May 10.Just a reminder that an annular Solar eclipse will take place early this Friday morning, May 10.The annular eclipse starts in remote Western Australia,...

EldestOne and I are bonding over heavy metal tonight, so no meteor reports

The single eta Aquariid I managed to photograph, out of all the meteors I saw this morning.I got up at 3:30 this morning to watch the eta Aquariid meteros, I had prepared the night before, but I still managed to stumble and fluff around....

The eta Aquariids are in an outburst, comparehttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2013/withhttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2012/and herehttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2011/If the outburst lasts we could have very good rates i...

The New Moon is Friday May 10 and there is an annular solar eclipse on this day. Venus appears on the evening horizon and is near the crescent Moon on May 11. Jupiter is low in the early evening sky and is visited by the crescent Moon o...

UPDATE: definitely an outburst, compareComparehttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2013/withhttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2012/and herehttp://www.imo.net/live/eta-aquariids2011/Morning sky on Tuesday May 7 looking east as seen fr...