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Live allsky observations streaming from the foothills of upstate New York and a dark-sky outpost deep in Texas — paired with deep-field astrophotography from years of patient nights under starlight.
Two cameras stare straight up — refreshing through the night, capturing meteors, satellites, aurora and the slow wheel of the Milky Way. The home rig sits in the Adirondack foothills; the Texas unit lives under genuinely dark Bortle-2 skies.
Both cams record overnight and ship the finished MP4 to IONOS at sunrise. Pick a date from the archive strip below each player to revisit older nights — and watch for the meteors, satellites, and aurora that didn't make it into the still gallery.
A rotating selection of recent astrophotography — nebulae, galaxies, planetary detail and the occasional lunar mosaic. Every image is the sum of dozens of hours of stacked exposures and patient processing.
A single pane of glass for Starfront Observatory in Rockwood, Texas — pooling every available camera feed, weather sensor, and sky-condition source into one continuously refreshing view.
Stellarvision pulls together every available feed from Starfront in Rockwood, Texas — all-sky cameras, weather data, cloud sensors, seeing reports — into a single up-to-the-minute dashboard. Built for the moments when you need to know exactly what the sky is doing, right now.
Open Stellarvision →Equipment, philosophy, and a running log of recent observation sessions across the two sites.
I've been chasing photons for over a decade — from suburban Bortle-5 skies in upstate New York to a remote Texas hillside where the Milky Way casts shadows. The allsky cams stay running so I never miss a clear window, an unexpected fireball, or the first hints of an aurora display.
Both rigs publish frames continuously through the night, and the deep-sky imaging gear comes out whenever the seeing is worth it. This site is the public window into both — refreshed as often as the skies cooperate.
For collaborations, prints, or questions about the gear and processing pipeline, the contact details are at the bottom of the page.