The opposite of rent-a-wreck

So, Here it is, the first "good" image from the Deep Space Imager on the one clear night so far this year. It is a small region of the "Great Orion Nebula", just below Orion's belt. It is the center of the nebula - the "…

Dark night - no moon. Cold - fleece lined boots. First try at through the telescope pictures - 78 frames of the Great Nebula in Orion. All in the computer - the dark to the right of the washtub holding the monitor. Now…

28 days of rain out of 30 make the E Fork Lewis River ten times wider than Summer. The first blue skies promise the stars will be back soon.

What's a beaver gotta do? Now, who in their right mind would chew further than this? You sure don't want to stick your head in there to get it from the inside. Waiting might be the smart move. A good wind could finish …

Next clear night will bring something to the page