Welcome to my Astronomy website. You can click the links at the top of this page to see the equipment I use along with the images I’ve taken.

    I currently live in Concord Township,Ohio which is approximately 30 miles east of Cleveland Ohio. I am a member of the Chagrin Valley Astronomy Club. I first got interested in astronomy back in college where I was studying Aeronautical Engineering. That was back in the 70s and I purchased a 6 inch Meade Newtonian telescope. I did some photographic film work with the telescope but really got involved photography when the digital revolution hit in the 90s. In the late 90s I purchased a Meade 12 inch LX 200 telescope along with the Meade Pictor 416xte CCD camera and the Meade Pictor 216xt auto guider. With that setup, images I had taken were published in the Meade catalog along with Astronomy Magazine. I’ve upgraded over the years a few times. I purchased a Meade 14 inch LX 200 telescope to replace the 12 inch. I then purchased a Meade 16 inch LX 850. Now I image with a Planewave CDK17 inch Telescope.  I image with a  CCD camera from SBIG. It is the  SBIG STT-8300M along with the FW8G-STT auto guiding filter wheel . I moved this setup to Rodeo, New Mexico in October 2023 and remotely control over internet from my home in Ohio.
I also enjoy playing the guitar and I have a link above to my YouTube site.  Welcome to my website. You can click the links at the top of this page to see the equipment I use along with the images I’ve taken.