About Me

Welcome. My blog is named Gregorium Sidus, which literally means Gregoria's Star, and is a reference to the name William Herschel gave to Uranus; The Georgium Sidus. Golly I hope it's not pretentious.

I'm Gregoria Luna Brannon (she/her), an amateur astronomer in North Carolina. I'm an observatory host at GTCC-Jamestown's Cline Observatory and have been doing astronomy since 2016. But I've had a lifelong fascination with space.


I love visual astronomy, science communication, and sidewalk astronomy. I have experience using many telescopes through volunteering at the Cline Observatory, ranging from 8" Dobsonians to Go-To Schmidt-Cassegrains to the puny Galileoscope to the massive 24" Corrected Dall-Kirkham in the observatory dome. My personal primary instrument is a 6" f/8 Dobsonian telescope (Apertura DT6).

Starting in July 2020, I began writing for AstronomySource.

I have a fascination with small cheap telescopes as well as an appreciation for large ones, and in addition to my 6" f/8 dob, I have a 3" f/4 Celestron FirstScope reflector and a 2" f/10 Galileoscope refractor.

I am a budget astronomer by necessity, but I am generally interested in budget astronomy for its value in equipping all those who wish to own a telescope with acceptable instruments. This site will serve both as a guide for beginner astronomers and as a personal log of my astronomical adventures. 

Clear Skies.

 

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