I could see the Milky Way in Cygnus (near the zenith) at 1:30am last night–that is rare for south Bowie.
I posed some new observations:
Before Midnight
After Midnight

go to www.openoffice.org to download the free/open source office software. It can read and write Microsoft Office files (though some rarely-used features don’t translate well–for example, this observation form uses features specific to OpenOffice Writer and won’t look very good in Microsoft Word). Attached is the observation form I currently use for my […]

Tonight is not a good observation night. Still, I can draw practice sketches from the Starry Night software. Here is Pleiades, one of the prettiest open clusters in the sky. The practice sketches now go on their own page too.
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I have settled in on a process for sketching what I see. I don’t always follow this process to the letter, but […]