Scattered Thoughts . . .

I've been itching to do some astronomy and astrophotography lately.  My health hasn't been cooperating with me being able to do much of anything so there hasn't been any astronomy happening around here.  It doesn't mean it hasn't been on my mind though and I really do wish I could find the energy to do a bit of astronomy and astrophotography among many other things I enjoy. I'm also in the process of slowly rebuilding a couple of telescope mounts I designed and built. This little rebuilding project included some annual maintenance on my permanent telescope pier in the yard.  Little by little, I'm getting those little things accomplished.   In the meantime, I revisited some photos I shot in July of 2018...  Typically, I would stack a number of images in an effort to bring out as much detail as possible but these two images are single images.  Somehow, I managed to capture some decent detail anyway without stacking multiple images of deta...

This time of year always gets me thinking about the lake.  Typically, we would be getting ready to head toward the lake house at this point in the year but we have no intentions of going anywhere anytime soon.   The lake has sort of moved to the back burner anyway for various reasons but, this year, I'm still struggling with consistent health issues.  I'm mostly still experiencing viral stuff that I've had since January  that everyone on Earth is trying to avoid  but also interspersed with problems related to my primary illness.   I haven't had a fever in about 10 days so that is good news but I'm still getting headaches and sore throats late in the day and the fatigue remains to be absolutely brutal.  I don't have the energy to do anything.  Even standing requires too much energy!   I know I need to be symptom-free for 14 days before I should be wandering from the house.  Well, that's what they say (I have bee...