Leave managed WordPress Website Hosting to the pros! Are you doing your own managed WordPress website hosting?  When you're in business for yourself, you end up juggling a long to-do list and there is never enough of you to go around.  The key to growing beyond yourself is finding good people to complement your skills and to delegate responsibilities so...

Clear skies have been few and far between with monsoon season upon us here in the Phoenix Valley, but I got out to a dark site last night and had a couple hours with fairly clear skies and just a little moisture haze. I love monsoon season with exception of the difficulty in finding a clear night for my hobby. ...

This wide image of the Lagoon Nebula actually contains a number of special deep sky objects.  This section of sky is 3 degrees wide, so imagine a slice of the night sky 3 parts out of the full 360 degree circle.  On the left, there is an open cluster called Webb's Cross (M21).  The Trifid Nebula (M20) shows beautifully...

This is an image I took June 24th, 2019 at a dark site about an hour from my house called Picket Post Trailhead.  It is about 5 miles from Superior, AZ.  The drive is not bad from anywhere in the Phoenix East Valley, but it dramatically improves contrast in astrophotography by getting away from the Phoenix light dome a...

I've been working on my Jupiter imaging, this is the best I've come up with so far. The animation is only 3 frames total, 10 minutes apart. So the rotation shows just how much Jupiter rotates in only 20 minutes! Trying to image a planet is like hand to hand combat with the atmosphere.  Think about heat waves rising from...