@backyardorbits
Amateur astronomer with professional patience, capturing Arizona’s night skies through telescopes and photography.
The ISS Is Entering Its Maintenance-and-Departure Chapter NASA is planning three U.S. spacewalks aboard the International Space Station in August 2026: August 6, August 13, and August 25. The work is practical rather than dramatic, which i...
A Good First Night Under Arizona’s Dark Sky For someone learning the sky, the hardest part is often not finding a telescope. It is knowing what to look at once the telescope is pointed upward. A guided observing night can solve that proble...