Thunderstruck Sundials!
Custom Sundials Designed and Built by an Astronomer!
These are Precise, Accurate Astronomical Instruments
That really tell the time!
Perfect Centerpiece For Any Garden, Yard, or Patio!
Thunderstruck Observatory: My personal astronomical observatory, home for my 13" f4.5 Dobsonian reflecting telescope. I call this place Thunderstruck Observatory because it's high (2,965 ft) on a mountain named "Thunderstruck Knob", in the Blue Ridge mountains near Micaville North Carolina.
Thunderstruck Palomar Observatory: My other observatory, home for my 4.25" f10.5 Newtonian reflecting telescope.
Astronomical snapshots : Astro photos with a cheap Kodak digital camera.
Satellite photos : More photos with the Kodak.
The Thunder-Cam: Astrophotography using a cheap webcam.
2001 Leonids Meteor shower: The "Thunder-Storm"!
Comet Hale-Bopp: 2nd Best Comet I ever saw!
Comet Hyakutake: Winner of the Thunderstruck observatory "Thunder Comet" Award!
Comet 1983d IRAS-Araki-Alcock: The first Comet I ever saw!
Orbital Debris: My photos of Space Shuttle launches and some other rockets.
Missile Experiments: My photos of Intercontinental Ballistic Missile experiments at Kwajalein Missile Range, in the Marshall Islands.
Shipwrecks: My photographic tour of some of the world's great shipwrecks. Includes sunken World War II ships at Kwajalein Lagoon, Truk Lagoon, Rabaul, Guadalcanal, North Carolina and Florida.
Pacific Islands: Some of the places I visited in 1982-1984, including Kwajalein, Ponape, Nauru and other islands.
War Toys: Just a few old Polaroid photos of equipment I worked with long ago.
