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Morning Star Observatory (MSO) is relocating to our new home in West Virginia. My Exploradome in Luray, VA has been removed and stored, and the old obs building there now has a shingled roof.
My new observatory will be used for visual observing and CCD imaging and I hope to begin construction in 2018. The new dome will be the 12-foot Lancaster dome that I've had in storage for the last 6 years. The twelve-foot dome will house my Orion HDX110 EQ-G GEM mount and Celestron C-11 SCT. An Astro-Tech AT6RC astrograph will the main imaging scope and there will also be a separate guide scope and camera. The current cameras are my modified Orion StarShoot Pro one-shot color camera and an Orion StarShoot Deep Space Color Imager for auto-guiding with PHD2 software. |
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I became interested in Astronomy when I was about 8 years old. On July 20, 1963 there was a total solar eclipse across North America. My parents had given me a small Sears refractor telescope for Christmas which I set up to project the eclipse on a screen for everyone to see. Where I lived it was a 70% eclipse and as the skies darkened it made such an impression that over 50 years later I still remember the day.
Also on this site are some non-astronomy pages relating to my other hobbies and things I find interesting such as amateur radio. I've collected antique radios for many years and sometimes restore the better ones. And I collected rocks, minerals and fossils, also since I was a kid, but don't have any pages up for them yet. But I will when time permits. I also enjoy shooting my muzzleloading rifles and will probably add a page or two on them one of these days. My wife insists I have too many hobbies, but I think she's just being unreasonable...
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork... Psalm 19:1
The heavens declare the glory of God; and the firmament sheweth his handywork... Psalm 19:1
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(Last update 11/19/2018)
(Last update 11/19/2018)
