It Begins
I was given my first telescope for my fifteenth birthday. For years before this I was fascinated with the stars. Having a real telescope changed everything. It made all the books I had read
My First Astronomical Sketch
This was my first attempt to sketch an astronomical object. It created it on August 9, 2004 by simply by sketching what you see in a telescope eyepiece. Astronomers used this practice for thousands
Why I Love Astronomy
Most of my childhood was spent in the seventies. Technology was still very new at best and the spectacular images produced by the Hubble Space Telescope and even by amateurs today were not remotely