Exploring A Beautiful Universe…. No matter your physical limitations…
I have been acquiring books as I re-enter this hobby of amateur astronomy and I found several that I will be reviewing. Oddly, the books that I am attracted to are mostly out of print and I’ve acquired mostly second hand copies. This said, I saw this title from O’Reilly books, “Astronomy Hacks“, by Robert Read More …
Our progress continues. The Stellarium package worked seamlessly with the Celestron 130 GT and we can now point and control the telescope with the laptop. We’ll be testing this next in the field on the next clear night to see how well it works in a real scenario. It was very surprising to see how Read More …
We got the Celestron GT 130 to talk with my laptop which was a huge win for our plans to advance forward… Our plan for the GT-130 is to use it as the “Beach head scope” to get back to observing and also to test camera gear with it and keep a observing log with Read More …
And so begins the site pages for the Sierra Debora Observatory. I know not where exactly all of this will go, but I do want to insure that the universe is accessible to everyone and to get people to look up at the sky and not down at their cell phones so much!