Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

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 [...]

I’ve been looking for transportation cases for a few weeks now. I want to protect my 6″ Edmunds Scientific reflector as well as my ASGT head.
I bought a Black and Decker toolbox for the ASGT about a year ago but that broke about the third time I used it. It was made of cheap plastic [...]

The New Hampshire Astronomy Society has its usual Messier Marathon in March but last year Dave Gilmore and myself held a “mini” marathon at YFOS. That one, and the previous few years’ marathons have all be clouded out, so this year the club decided to hold an October marathon also.
I don’t understand the full details between [...]

I headed out to MacMillian Pier to do some public astronomy with the Burgess. Yeah, pretty strange with a brand new scope at home, but the tourist season is almost over and I wanted to get another night of that in. I need to build up my P-town “character” rep, right?
Anyway, I get there and [...]

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, [...]