Last Night Under the Stars

Last night’s targets included globular clusters Messier 2 and Messier 56, galaxy Messier 77 and galaxy NGC 253. All of the images below are composites […]

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Bioluminescence

You most likely know that it means the ability of some living things to emit light – to glow. Examples from nature abound: glow worms, […]

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Another Night Under the Stars

I spent much of last night doing astrophotography. Below is my most successful capture. The object is M15 – a globular cluster in the constellation […]

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Navel Gazing

Americans are a parochial lot, I think sometimes. But perhaps it seems so only because I have spent my entire life here. If I had […]

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Return of the Queen

Susan came home this evening from her Omaha visit. I prepared this surf ‘n turf supper for her. The turf is a sous vide (2hrs […]

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M33 – The Little Sister

M33, the Triangulum Galaxy, is the Milky Way’s little sister. The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, is the largest of the three sisters. And, both Andromeda and […]

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Say What?

As I was walking through the grocery store parking lot earlier, I felt my phone vibrate. I looked at the screen. It was a FB […]

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Tonight in Food Porn

This is a dinner that I made myself several days ago; tonight I am repeating it. It is shrimp cocktail with basil pesto topped crostini, […]

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