Author Archives: Michael Foegelle

For a number of years now I’ve been peripherally involved in the effort to bring a planetarium to Central Texas.  The brain child of Torvald Hessel, the effort to create the Austin Planetarium eventually grew into the Texas Museum of … Continue reading →

Introduction With the remote location of the observatory, I’m pretty limited on my choices for internet, especially since I’m more interested in uplink data rates rather than downlink, in order to facilitate remote control of the observatory.  Of course being able … Continue reading →

The Planetary Society with Bill Nye (the Science Guy) had a Kickstarter campaign to develop a light sail CubeSat using public funds.  I just received my notice that they’ve completed the campaign and are ready to send me my goodie bag … Continue reading →

I’ve added a Links of Interest page with a lot of detail providing a handful of links to places I regularly visit or would like to regularly visit.  I also included information on some of my favorite telescope equipment vendors. … Continue reading →

So I got my Geoptik lens adapter and Losmandy camera mount in a couple of weeks ago.  We’ve been under cloudy skies pretty much constantly, so I haven’t had much opportunity to put this to use, but I’ve post some … Continue reading →

While I don’t want to clutter up my website with a bunch of ads everywhere, in some respects these days it seems like they make a site feel more complete!  At a minimum they’re more dynamic than just static pages. … Continue reading →

I’ve finally been getting a few good nights of imaging, and have been making some progress with my post processing.  I’m  still taking wide field shots with my AT-80LE, and now have the field flattener installed and working correctly, so … Continue reading →

I’ve decided to add some additional photo gallery sections for some of my other types of photography.  I don’t know what I’ll add or when, but I’ve added a section for all the various animals I catch around the ranch … Continue reading →

I managed to find a couple of windows to capture some images of Comet Lovejoy C/2014 Q2.  The first is a wide field showing Lovejoy west of Orion, visible as the green dot if you look just to the right of … Continue reading →

My Ambient Weather WS-2090 was failing after about a year of use, and had plenty of intermittent problems throughout the year, so I decided to invest in something better.  Unfortunately that something better is also something much more expensive.  On … Continue reading →