Museum - SawtoothSkies in Mesa, Arizona

Hello everybody, here is the latest images of our telemetry tower here at the observatory. The seeing monitor, weather system, cloud sensor and dark sky meter are installed. Construction for the first 2 domes will begin in May.

Yesterday we visited Lowell Observatory for the Grand Re-Opening of their Pluto Telescope! Named after the planet it was used to discover by Mr. Clyde Tombaugh in 1930. Thank you Lowell Observatory for restoring this beautiful scope and congratulations! Also pictured are the Rotunda Museum and the dome which houses the 24'' Clark Telescope!

Congratulations to Idaho Astronomers! This is excellent news!

Happy Holidays everyone! We're wishing everyone a happy and joyous holiday season. Our wish is for us all to take time to look up at the night sky and remember that your brief existence on this world is not guaranteed and is not forever. I am sending along my "Season's Greetings" image of ngc1579. Like a giant Christmas tree, this nebula is brilliantly lit from blazing stars. Larger link at Flickr https://www.flickr.com///25256313318/in/dateposted-public/ Optics 12-inch RC...OS Astrograph Camera SBIG STL11000M Filters Blaader LRGB Dates Nov 29, 30, Dec 23 and 27 Exposures time LRGB = 300:90:90:90 Processing CCDStack. PhotoshopCS5.5, Pixinsight See more

Happy Sunday Morning everyone. Here is an image NGC2403 taken a few years ago from SkyPi Observatory in Pie town New Mexico. Not satisfied with the original, I wanted to revisit this data set for a do over. I hope you like it. Larger link: https://www.flickr.com///38924208862/in/dateposted-public/ Optics 12-inch RCOS Astrograph... Camera SBIG STL11000M Filters Baader LRGB Dates Jan 16th, 17th, and 19 2015 Exposures time LRGB = 150:80:80:80 See more

Happy Sunday Morning.. Here's a late summer image of Messier 13 taken from the backyard observatory here in light polluted Mesa Arizona. This image represents over 6.5 hours of data from the 12.5 RCOS. Optics 12-inch RCOS Astrograph Camera SBIG STL11000M Filters Baader LRGB Dates Sept 18 through Oct 24 2017... Exposures time LHaRGB = 150:80:80:80 Processing CCDStack. PhotoshopCS5.5, PixInsight Larger version: https://www.flickr.com///23943578867/in/dateposted-public/

We had a couple of solar scopes set up in the backyard the other morning. There was no interesting solar activity but the view was still superb!