Through My Eyepiece

Beginning in February 2006, I have been writing a column in each issue of the Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society of Canada. I've collected these columns here for your reading pleasure. All are in Adobe Acrobat (PDF) format.

February 2006	Through My Eyepiece	Starmaster 11-inch Newtonian, Jupiter
April 2006	Binoviewers	Binoviewers, pairs of galaxies
June 2006	A Tale of Two Eclipses	Québec 1963, Libya 2006
August 2006	Cosmic Bird Watching	Messier, Finest NGC, Herschel 400
October 2006	City Mouse and Country Mouse	Observing in city and country
December 2006	Finding Things	Starhopping and digital setting circles
February 2007	Starting Out: Buying a Telescope	When, where, and what to buy
April 2007	Comets Seen and Unseen	Arend-Roland, Mrkos, Hyakutake, Hale-Bopp, McNaught
June 2007	Starting Out: A Most Pleasant Way to Spend an Evening	Jupiter central meridian transits
August 2007	Starting Out: Great Expectations	Beginners' expectations: low and high
October 2007	Starting Out: Sketching at the Eyepiece	Making simple drawings to train your eye
December 2007	Starting Out: What am I Going to Look at Tonight?	Planning an observing session
February 2008	Peas in a POD	SkyShed POD
April 2008	Southward Bound	Planning a trip to view Australian skies
June 2008	Under Southern Skies	Four nights in Australia
August 2008	Sing we and Chant it!	Early Chant medalists
October 2008	Some EnChanted Evening	Later Chant medalists
December 2008	Eyepieces	Eyepieces
February 2009	Stargazing	What do you look at?
April 2009	Perception and Reality	Talking to the public
June 2009	Something Completely Different	Ways to rejuvenate interest
August 2009	Titan’s Shadow	A lifetime first
December 2009	Santa Scopes	Telescope recommendations
February 2010	Fun, Go, and Galileo: Three Low-Priced ‘Scopes	Three scopes under $100

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