I've been interested in things you can see in the sky at night all my life. I even own an 8 inch Celestron telescope, but it sits in its box gathering dust. I soon discovered that pictures taken through large telescopes were so much better than anything I could see that there was no point in driving to some dark sky location, setting up the scope, and then squinting into an eyepiece while trying not to shiver.
I've subscribed to Sky & Telescope and Astronomy for many years. Off and on. Wonderful magazines. Burnham's Celestial Handbook is one of the best sources of astronomical lore and information. My copies have been read cover-to-cover several times. And then there is the internet. Don't we live in a wondrous age! If you can type Google and Wikipedia, you've just about got access to all the information your heart could ever desire.
Now I'm an old man. I've been retired for nearly a decade. I have quite a lot of time to spend doing the things I could only dream about during all those years I was a worker bee, putting in 60 hour weeks to do what my boss considered 40 hours worth of work.
My purpose in creating this blog is to organize my collection of information about the stars. That's why I picked the name of this blog. I figure this is a way to motivate me to write something on a fairly regular basis.
I probably won't have much to say about planets or moons or comets. This blog will be about Stars.
This first post is just to familiarize myself with the way this whole blogging thing works. In 2008 I did a blog about some other things that interest me. The only person to leave any comments was my niece. So I don't expect too many people will read this blog either. Maybe I'll get some interesting spam.
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