Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

I was honored to work with write and poet Jeannette Angell and poet Maria Nazos at a free presentation at the Cape Cod National Seashore tonight. They started off with original poetry and prose along with some multi-cultural history of the stories of the night sky.
The sky was hazy, not cooperative at all for my [...]

Well, this is is. I have 4 Messier objects to go to complete the list with my Canon 15×50is binoculars. I’m going to make the attempt on 3 of them tonight. The 4th, M76, needs to wait until a bit later in the year. I set the alarm for 2:45AM.
Here are the field notes:
2:56am – [...]

Now that my Binocular Messier list is almost complete I need to start another project. This will be the Herchel 400 which I’ll attempt with my 1963 vintage Edmund Scientific 6″ reflector. I’m very new to this scope so I expect that there will be some teething problems. So actually, I plan on trying to [...]