Richard Whitehead Archive

I found an interesting diversion on the road between Oklahoma City and Amarillo, Texas. There’s this this rather wonderful aeronautical museum, the Thomas P. Stafford Air & Space Museum …

Another long day on the road, today about 500 miles. So I’ve covered about 1800 miles in 3 days. Not bad going. Today’s and yesterday’s journeys were punctuated by… …

I'm crossing the USA to take my telescope and other photog equipment to southern New Mexico to check out the gorgeous dark skies there.

The Dumbbell Nebula (sometimes called the Apple Core Nebula) is designated M27 in Charles Messier’s catalog. It was the first Planetary nebula that he observed. Planetary Nebulae are nothing …

The moon is always beautiful, unless its ruining the observation of other objects. I have used various telephoto lenses and DSLR combinations in the past to photograph the moon. …

The second time I imaged this, I remember the excitement of seeing it myself, from a field near Hinesburg, Vermont, and not from a Hubble image. Fast forward a …

My first DSO! M42 is often the first deep sky object that astronomers and astrophotographers look at. It’s awesome because you can just see it by looking up into …