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...

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...

  (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...

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

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...

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...

Mars is a funny planet.  What you see is not what you get.  Most maps of Mars show the features of Mars as seen by NASA spacecraft orbiting Mars.  What most astronomers actually see from Earth is the albedo...

I started a gallery of my photographs that were captured and edited using the techniques taught in the Texas Star Cave videos.  These were all captured in under one hour in my backyard Bortle 8 skies.  Let me know...