SolObservatory is a one-person setup — me, a tripod, and a few telescopes in a backyard in Vernon, BC, under Bortle 5 skies. No dome, no observatory building. The gear comes out when the weather cooperates and the kids are down for the night. I started shooting deep-sky in 2022 and have since added solar imaging in hydrogen-alpha, comets when they show up, and whatever else is worth losing sleep over.

My day job is industrial automation. I'm a Red Seal electrician working on the PLC and SCADA systems that keep water and wastewater plants running. Most of that work comes down to monitoring and logging — watching readings over time and catching the moment something shifts. Turns out that's most of astrophotography too, just aimed at the sky instead of a pump station.

Outside of work it's mostly the same handful of things: astrophotography, writing code, a VR rig I use for flight, racing and space sims, and a guitar that gets picked up in fits and starts. I've also got a wife and two daughters who seem to like my cool space pics, so that's nice!

This site is the logbook. It's where the images live, where I write up the gear and the screwups honestly, and where I'm building the next project out in the open. The nights that fell apart get posted right next to the ones that worked.