Eclipse 2024 T-Shirts

Click to learn when and where the eclipse in Texas occurs.         Get your Texas Star Cave™ on Amazon  or  Texas Star Cave™ on Teepublic Eclipse 2024 apparel in time for the April 8, 2024 eclipse! These are all original Texas...

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Eclipse 2024 Announcement

Where do you plan to be for the next Texas eclipse in April 2024?  Join me with ICR just east of Dallas. Find out more at ICR.org/eclipse2024.

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Loyd Overcash Roll-off Observatory

My best friend made a three minute video about his "roll-off observatory" in late summer 2020.  I recently rediscovered the footage, and immediately cut this video.  Please watch, like, subscribe, and share with other astronomers and clubs that were...

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Big Bang of the Mind

Big Bangs of Creation: Mind We have learned a lot about the origins of the world around us from the recent presentations at the Greater Houston Creation Association. It is often claimed that the gas clouds produced by the cosmological...

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Big Bang of Information

  (From the GHCA newsletter) Cosmological Big Bang: the common scientific hypothesis of the origin of the universe.  Last month, Robert Brayton brought us an alternative explanation of the origin of the universe anchored in Genesis 1. There are a number of...

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Big Bangs of Creation

I have been invited to present the "Big Bangs of Creation" series at the Greater Houston Creation Association meetings November 3, 2022, December 1, 2022, and January 5, 2023.  The GHCA meetings start at 7:00pm at Houston's First Baptist...

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Artwork for sale

Artwork for sale

I've started selling some of my astronomy artwork online. Please take a look, comment, and buy your favorite. Thanks!

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Texas Star Cave™ is Open For Business!

Over the years, I have repaired, adjusted, and enhanced a diversity of telescopes, and spent hours consulting and training novice and experienced astronomers and astrophotographers.  Below is a list of repairs and improvements that I have successfully accomplished.  I...

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A Few of My Favorite Apps

Out of the hundreds of tools for astronomers available, I find that I keep coming back to a handful of tools that I find most useful.  Some are free (with ads) and some pay.  Here are some of my...

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Astronomical League: Foundations of Imaging

The internet is replete with resources for astronomers and astrophotographers, and the local astronomy club is indispensable, especially for beginners.  That said, however dedicated you are to your craft, there may be times when you feel like you have...

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