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Astronomy Archive
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It Begins
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsI was given my first telescope for my fifteenth birthday. For years before this I was fascinated with the stars. Having a real telescope changed everything. It made all the books I had read and pictures I had seen become real. Seeing a picture of... -
My First Astronomical Sketch
Posted on May 10, 2011 | No CommentsThis was my first attempt to sketch an astronomical object. It created it on August 9, 2004 by simply by sketching what you see in a telescope eyepiece. Astronomers used this practice for thousands of years to record their observations. This practice was useful well... -
Why I Love Astronomy
Posted on July 7, 2010 | 3 CommentsMost of my childhood was spent in the seventies. Technology was still very new at best and the spectacular images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope and even by amateurs today were not remotely possible yet. The imaginations of space artists were in full control...