"The Cosmos is all there is, all that ever was, and all there ever will be."

- Carl Sagan

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My Scopes

  • Meade DS-2114ATS 4.5" Newtonian
  • Website
  • Orion SkyQuest™ XT10 - 10" f/4.7 Dobson Website

    Filters & Eyepieces

  • Orion Full-Aperture Glass Solar Filter for ShortTube 4.5

  • SkyGlow Light Pollution Filter
  • Variable Polarizing Filter
  • #80A Medium Blue Planetary Filter
  • #25 Red Planetary Filter
  • #58 Green Planetary Filter
  • #15 Deep Yellow Planetary Filter
  • Sirius Plössl 25mm
  • 1.25"
  • Sirius Plössl 10mm
  • 1.25"
  • Meade Plössl 6mm 1.25"

  • Meade Plössl 4mm 1.25"

  • Meade MA25mm 1.25"

  • Meade MH9mm 1.25"

  • Meade 2X Telenegative Shorty Barlow 1.25"

  • Meade Electronic Eyepiece
  • Binoculars

  • Meade TravelView 8x32 Folding Roof Prism Binoculars
  • Astronomy Basics & Fun Facts

    4Astro Essentials
    4Our Solar System
    4Major Northern Constellations & Mythology

    Amateur Astronomy 101

    4Astronomers Dictionary
    4Recommendations for Beginning Amateur Astronomers
    4Eyepieces
    4Cleaning Optics

    My Reading List

    4Bad Astronomy, Philip Plait
    4Cosmos, Carl Sagan
    4Demon-Haunted World, Carl Sagan
    4Cambridge Encyclopedia of Astronomy, Simon Mitton
    4Amateur Astronomer , Scientific American
    4Guide to the Night Sky, Philippe Henarejos
    4The Sky at Night , Robin Kerrod
    4Visions of the Cosmos, Carolyn Collins Petersen
    4Monthly Sky Guide, Ian Ridpath, Wil Tirion
    4The Elegant Universe , Brian Greene
    4The Theory of Everything , Stephen W. Hawking
    4The Universe in a Nutshell , Stephen W. Hawking
    4The Illustrated Brief History of Time , Stephen W. Hawking
    4Relativity : The Special and the General Theory, Albert Einstein
    4Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Paul Murdin
    4Asimov on Astronomy, Isaac Asimov
    4In Their Own Words: The Space Race; the Apollo, Gemini, and Mercury Missions, Rod Pyle

    ElWampas AstroPhotography
    Full Moon taken on August 25th 2004. DS-2114 Total Lunar Eclipse Oct 27th 2004. DS-2114 The Sun Oct 25th 2004. DS-2114

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