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Galaxies previously unseen discovered with help from physicist
Tuesday, March 24, 2026 by Richard Harris
I chase photons that perhaps left their homes before our oceans found their tides (if you believe photos actually travel anyway). Those photons slide into a sensor as if they are shy travelers, and if I treat them with patience they will draw a picture that was always there, just hidden under the no...

Automatic polar alignment for telescopes just got real
Monday, January 12, 2026 by Richard Harris
Polar alignment is a nuts-and-bolts procedure - an unglamorous but unavoidable step if we want precise tracking of the night sky with our telescopes. There’s nothing particularly elegant or mysterious about it. You’re simply aligning the polar axis (RA) of your mount as accurately as pos...

Missouri aurora November 2025 my first time with astrophotography
Wednesday, November 19, 2025 by Trey Abbe
A few nights ago, my wife, daughter, and I stood in our driveway after hearing that the aurora might be visible through night mode on our phones. We weren’t expecting much-maybe a faint glow, maybe nothing at all. But the moment we lifted our phones toward the northern horizon, the screens rev...

Reflect Orbital satellites could roast the night sky!
Tuesday, October 7, 2025 by Richard Harris
Are you kidding me? As if the ever-growing wall of light pollution from every city, streetlight, and LED billboard wasn’t already bad enough, now we’ve got a startup that wants to beam sunlight back down to Earth at night. Reflect Orbital - backed by Sequoia Capital and Baij...
