Snow Day

The family and I got the day off from school and work. We rode sleds, made snow angels, ate snow, threw snow balls and made a snow man. This was the good stuff, not too dry and not too wet...just right! The only thing that could've topped today would be a snow day on a Friday.

Could it be...it's snowing!

Well, the Meteoroligist finally got the forecast right. They predict 4-10" and I'd say we already have 2" in the fist 2 hours.

Partial Mosaic

I took several images of our lunar neighbor last night and stitched three of them together with photoshop. At 180 power I managed to get less than 10 km resolution, even with poor seeing and numb fingers. The two main craters are Tycho on the right and Copernicus on the left.

Dallas...Duhnn Duhnn Duhnnnn!

Well, today's game could have been better. The way the Cowboys played in their last few games I wasn't surprised with the loss. Oh well, there is next year to look foward to. Sorry James.

Cloudless Night

Tonight was clear of clouds, so I decided to bundle up, break out the telescope and take a peek at some of the nights' gems. With a little help from my astronomy software, I was able to find quite a few Messier and NGC objects. I viewed a total of 5 galaxy's, 7 globular clusters and a couple of nebulae, one those being the elusive M1 "Crab Nebula", a pretty good session for a last minute decision. Unfortunately I did not take any images of these distant beauties, but here is a snap shot of M81 and M82 two galaxies I did see.

Oh no OU

What hell was that On Side Kick call? I rank that up there with using Hydrogen to float a blimp! As much as I hate to say it...West Virginia was clearly the better team in this bowl.

Happy New Year Y'all!

Couldn't resist this opportunity. It was 20 degrees, the sky was clear, the humidity was low and I haven't had the scope out in 3 weeks...brrrr,hope you enjoy the scenery. Go Sooners!