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Observing
Achieving the Unexpected
Albedo Effects
The Alpha Persei Association
An Anonymous Dark Nebula
Another Take on Night Vision
An Unfamiliar Lyra
Anything
but
Galaxies
Appreciating the Little Things
Are Today's Skies That Much Worse than they used to Be?
Atmospherics: Seeing and Transparency
A Trip to the North Pole
The Asterism Game
Autumn: The Second Galaxy Season
Avoiding the Obvious in Auriga
Baade's Window
Batting 1000
Better Night Vision
Cassiopeia Clusters
Centaurus A
Chasing Numbers
Cloudy Night Astronomy
The Cocoon Nebula
Colorful DSOs
The Coolest Stars
Cosmographic Observing
Crossing the Meridian
Crystalline Winter Nights
Dark Matters
Dealing with Light Pollution (pdf)
Deep Seeing
The Deep Sky Through a Small Instrument
Describing a Galaxy
Directions? Don't need 'em
Epsilon Lyrae: The Double-Double Test
Evaluating an Observing Site
Experiences with High Power Viewing
Experiments in Spectroscopy
The Eye Of God
Eyeballing Big Game Nebulas
Fair Air for Observing
A Favorite DSO
A Few Mistakes I've Made
Gathering up a Few Open Clusters
The Globulars of Summer
The Good Ol' Double Cluster
Hey, Don't Stick With Just the "Usual" Stuff!
On the Horns of Taurus
Impressions of a Night Sky Unaffected by Light Pollution
An Introduction to Nebulae
Light Site Viewing - Part 1
Light Site Viewing - Part 2
Light Site Viewing - Part 3
Limits are Meant to be Broken
Lists, Lists, Lists
Looking Up, Down Under
Observing Galaxy Clusters
The "Other" Horizon
M4 - An Early Summer Globular
M24 - "Neighboring" Arm
Visual Primer on M31
M33 - Big and Faint
M41
Make the Best of Winter
More Shapely Star Clusters
Observing Addiction
Observing the Planets
Observing the Southern Sky
Perseid Viewing
The Pleiades Rising
Rambling on about our Expanding Universe
The Raspberry Nebula
Record What You See
Ringtail Galaxies: NGC 4038/9
Rock Collecting
Shapely Star Clusters
Shooting Out Your Back Door
Showpieces of the Sky
Side-by-Side Galaxies
SLOOH
So What Can That Telescope See?
Sorting Out Stephan's Quintet
Splitting Porrima
A Stand-in for Albireo
A Starry Calendar
Telescopeless Observing
The Triffid Nebula
Thermals or Atmospherics?
Tools of the Trade
"True Dark" Skies
Two Great Globulars
Two More Observing Issues
UV Aurigae
What's that Dark Strip on the Eastern Horizon after Sunset?
Why Are Emission Nebulae (Mostly) Colored Red?
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