Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

I just bought a new scope, well, not really new, new for me. The telescope is actually almost as old as I am. It is an Edmund Scientific 6″ reflector, the Space Conqueror, as it was called in the catalogs back then. (This scan is from a 1968 catalog.)
I’m pretty sure it is from 1963, [...]

I was sitting watching the Red Sox beat the Yankees (yeah!) when the phone rang. Our neighbor, Diane, was looking for a lost cat named Lowell and noticed that the stars were gorgeous. So I made a note to check them out after the game. She was right! Many of Truro’s nights have some light [...]

The Cape Cod Astronomy Society holds weekly summer star parties during the summer. (Check their web site for details, but alas, they are done for 2008.) I’ve managed to miss all of them so far this summer so I was quite pleased to find myself able to attend tonight’s.
Unlike the public observing from the New [...]

Last week or so I gave a talk to a standing room only house, 46 people, at the Truro Library on Astronomy. The title of the talk was called “Astronomy 101: What I Can See in the Sky Tonight.”
I talked about the Milky Way, Constellations, Moon, Jupiter the Perseids and Light Pollution. I tried to [...]