Paul Cézanne's Astronomy Observing Reports

I was just interviewed by the local public radio station, WOMR out of Provincetown Massachusetts. Hamilton Kahn has a twice weekly news program and he was concerned about a news report that he had read about killer asteroids. Click here to download the mp3.

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 [...]

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 [...]

There was a lot of astronomy over the Thanksgiving weekend. So much so that I’ll not be able to get it all written down. But lets just record the few unusual things that happened.
Before Thanksgiving I set up the 5″ Burgess refractor and the light pollution shield and invited my 14 year old daughter Anastasia [...]

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 [...]

“Come see the Moon!”
Ok, I really didn’t say that. I’m not sure why, that’s what one is supposed to say, right? Last Saturday night I set up my 5″ refractor, a Burgess 1278, on MacMillan Wharf in Provincetown, Massachusetts to do some sidewalk astronomy. I was still setting up when I had my first pair [...]