Seven years ago, I put aside one of my hobbies: astronomy. After several years, my interest in this area never really grew into a passion. Periodically I’d take out my binoculars or telescope. More often I  would just try a few shots of the moon with my camera but that was more out of love for photography than astronomy.  But in the last few months, my interest in the celestial objects beyond our world started growing again. And now I finally have a bit of time to poke around in the sky. With the night’s becoming warmer again, how can one not want to revel in the beauty of our universe?

Today, I even took out my telescope and attempted to mount my new camera onto the viewfinder. Of course, my telescope is way too wobbly for that but to shots aren’t too bad.  You can definitely see the giant sunspots that have been causing so much trouble to us Earthlings lately!

I need to practice a bit more with my little telescope since equatorial mounts can be a bit tricky. But maybe this is the year that I finally get a new base for my 12″ Dobsonian. I really miss that big ole chicken cannon!