by Barry Creamer | May 22, 2024 | Devotionals
With the holidays I had the rare opportunity to set up my telescope at an overlook not far from my house to try for a picture of the waning moon as it set mid-day. Still gibbous, the moon is easy to observe during broad daylight. However, as it approaches the horizon,...
by Barry Creamer | May 17, 2023 | Devotionals
Observing the sun through a telescope has blinded a lot of people and melted a lot of optics, and therefore requires a filter to eliminate 99.999%—that’s the real proportion; not hyperbole—of incoming light. So just before dawn I cover my scope’s aperture with solar...
by Barry Creamer | Apr 27, 2022 | Devotionals
When I describe setting up a telescope on a mountain in Colorado, people often respond with something between a joke and perplexity, since the altitude of the mountain will diminish the distance to my astronomical target so little as not to be measurable: 1 or 2 miles...
