Suburban Backyard Astro Sights

The Spider and the Fly are a stunning pair of neighboring star-forming nebulae and open star clusters in the constellation Auriga. Click to read more

The Seagull Nebula is a sprawling region of open star clusters, glowing hydrogen gas, dark dust clouds, and scattered reflection nebulae. Its nickname comes from its distinct shape – suggesting a seagull in flight. Click to read more

The Medusa Nebula is an intricate ghostly structure with tendrils of gas stretching like the serpentine hair of its namesake from Greek mythology. The Gorgon Medusa was a monstrous creature with living snakes in place of hair, and was known for her ability to turn anyone who looked at her into stone. Click to read more

It’s been three years since I last overhauled this website. So here we go – a fresh makeover. Click to read more

We had fine weather here in North Carolina for the Pi Day March eclipse of the moon. Here’s how it looked through my telescope. Click to read more

The Tadpole Nebula (IC 410) gets its name from two striking tadpole-shaped clouds of dark dust that appear to be swimming towards the center. These “tadpoles” are dense streams of gas and dust, each stretching about 10 lightyears. Within them, new stars may be forming, hidden inside their thick cocoons. Click to read more