In keeping with the mission of the Morgan County Observatory, this blog is intended to be educational as well as entertaining (you know, pretty pictures). I love finding objects in the sky and getting the telescope working as well as is possible. I take a rather esthetic approach to sky objects. I think they are an amazingly beautiful part of the natural world, as are trees, flowers, birds, etc. I consider myself to be an amateur astronomer, but I am by no means an amateur cosmologist (a scientist who studies the universe and its origin and development). I take most modern ideas about the origins of the universe with a huge grain of salt and feel that there is vastly more to the story than we have imagined.
By: John Hrubec Vice President, Technical Operations of the Morgan County Observatory Foundation