Proprietor Jim is passionate about astronomy and has an observatory in the backyard.  Jim will be thrilled to take you on a tour of the night sky.

After many years of using star charts and manually finding objects in the night sky Jim has recently gone "high-tech".  The principal telescope is a Celestron 9.25 Schmidt Cassegrain mounted to a Celestron CGE mount.  The mount is computerized and is capable of finding deep space objects based on their catalog identification or by their celestial coordinates.

The eyepiece on this telescope is also "high-tech"; it is a video eyepiece.  The StellaCam II eyepiece is much more sensitive to light than our eyes and can "integrate" 256 video frames.  The result is a long exposure that makes even dim distant galaxies easy to see in detail on the LCD monitor.  If you have ever struggled to observe through traditional optical eyepieces, the power and ease of this approach will amaze you.