My band, Glowbox, is playing at the Thirsty First in Lowell, MA Friday Oct 23. Come check our flavor of power pop and support local original music.

Enjoying one last camping weekend at Horseneck Beach in Westport, MA. We always get a spot right on the beach.

Sunset yesterday from our campsite at Fisherman’s Memorial Campground in Narragansett, RI.

Fred was ready for the partial eclipse today with his Baader solar eclipse glasses. It was only about 20% coverage but it was still nice to view.

Me in my happy place.

My band Glowbox is putting on a big show to celebrate Sir Paul’s birthday. We have a great line up of awesome musicians from Boston’s original music scene. If you’re not busy, come check it out. You can purchase tickets here: events.ticketleap.com/events/magic...

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4 extremely good doggos at a dinner party.

Glowbox is rocking their power pop at the Burren in Davis Sq, Somerville. If you are in the Boston area, come check us out. Use the code 24HOUR to get discounted tickets.

Happy to report that Bear Path Observatory has completed snow removal operations and will continue to wait for the next calm clear night. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Here is a cropped close up of the Seagull nebula. Lots of interesting star forming regions rich with ionized gas and dust. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Just finished up about 6hrs of data on the Seagull Nebula in Monoceros. It’s about 4000 ly from Earth. I used a OSC camera, a RedCat51 & 2 Antlia dual narrowband filters: one capturing Ha & OIII. The other capturing SII & Hb. I then split & recombined the channels in SHO pallet. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Here is a great song for our times by my fellow band mate and good friend, Garret Vandermolen. Enjoy! garretvandermolen.bandcamp.com/track/foxtro...

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Spent the weekend in Reykjavik, Iceland. Friday was clear and provided an opportunity to view the northern lights.

This is 20 hrs of data on NGC 1499, The California Nebula. I reprocessed SHO data captured last year using the new Multi-scale Adaptive Stretch process in PixInsight. 🔭 #Astrophotography

It’s #straturday. This is my 1979 3-bolt neck Frankenstrat. Original pickups, but I added a Floyd Rose and midi guitar pickup. Love the tone this guitar has. It’s also a great slide guitar.

One of the all time greatest guitarists of all time… Man is a legend… RIP…👇

NGC 2264 is known as the Cone Nebula & the Christmas Tree Cluster & lives about 1000 ly from Earth in the constellation Monoceros. This 11 hr OSC capture was taken last February using a 102mm refractor with no filters. Finally got around to processing it in time for the holidays. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Behold my pup, Fred, eating a linguine noodle.

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Feeling great! 🙏🏾

At about 49 million light years from Earth, NGC 7331 and friends are wishing you all a great Thanksgiving. This was an 18 hour LRGB capture taken from my yard, under Bortle 5 skies in central MA using an 8” SCT at 1422mm focal length. Happy Thanksgiving! 🔭 #Astrophotography

Here’s a crop of Stephan’s Quintet taken from my yard with an 8” SCT. While these make up a visual cluster, the blue galaxy, NCG 7320, is closer to us at about 40 million ly from Earth. The other galaxies are gravitationally bound & are a whopping 300 million ly away. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Shot this the other night with a 135mm lens and OSC camera. Interesting focal length where you can combine multiple deep sky objects in one frame. Here is the Perseus Double Cluster (left) and the Heart & Soul nebulas (right). 47x300s subs. 🔭 #Astrophotography

Here’s a pupdate: Fred ate his entire piece of birthday salmon in one swallow.

Celebrating Fred’s 7th birthday. Happy birthday buddy. You are the best!

Here is a single 5 min sub from my latest project, NGC 7331 & Friends images on my 8” SCT. I’ve got 11 hrs of L and am waiting for a couple of moonless clear night to finish capturing RGB and Ha. Hopefully this week, the weather will cooperate. 🔭 #Astrophotography

My band Glowbox is playing 10/25 at Underbones in Somerville, MA. We are promoting our new album, Bland Ambition. If you are in the Boston area, come support local original music.