He May Be Found

When the moon is waxing I occasionally set up my telescope to watch her pursue Apollo toward sunset. Dusky cerulean provides variety from the normally black backdrop of my nighttime lunar images, and should a high-flying bird or an airplane ever happen to cross the...

Fixed on God

Watching the sky has taught me a lot about the earth. When I put my standard eyepiece in the telescope and center it on the brightest object in the night sky, it takes the moon about 60 seconds to escape my view on its inexorable march westward—one minute, and moving...