Yours Truly - Jose Suro - Amateur Astronomy and Atrophotography

A picture is worth a thousand words.... With that in mind this website contains more pictures than words. I've dedicated this site to one of my favorite endeavors - amateur astronomy. I was given my first telescope by Santa Claus when I was six years old. It was a small 50mm refractor on an even smaller table tripod. It came with a solar eyepiece - dangerous when you think about it now. This telescope though, introduced me to a magnified view of the world around me and I loved it. The Moon and the Sun were my favorite targets and I spent many hours looking through that little scope. From there I went to binoculars but spent more time reading about astronomy than actually pursuing the hobby.

During my high school and college years my love for anything with lenses continued unabated. I delved heavily into photography, which helped me pay my way through college, shooting mostly commercial photography for advertising in newspapers. I learned a lot from Ansel Adams' Zone System books. This taught me how the importance of knowing your film and exposing and developing correctly for maximum tonal range, and depth of field.

With college graduation came lots of work and although I still kept in touch with my photography, it was no more than a passing interest. My work life placed such demands on me that I had neither the time, nor the energy to pursue photography, or anything else for that matter.

It was not until many years after from my early experience with that first telescope, 38 to be exact, that I rekindled my affair with Astronomy. I bought an inexpensive six-inch Dob and quickly got hooked again. Now I'm starting to get into Astro-photography, with the help of a Celestron NexStar 11 GPS - a wonderfully capable instrument.

I will slowly be filling these pages with more and more pictures, drawings, sketches and links to everything related to my hobby. So, check back often and enjoy the pictures.