Astronomy Village

Roy Morrow walks to his outdoor observatory at his home at Arizona Sky Ranch in Portal, Arizona.

Roy Morrow, (L), adjusts his Meade telescope in his observatory while fellow astronomers Rick Beno (C) and Gene Turner (R) watch. Morrow built the observatory with a roll back roof near his home at Arizona Sky Ranch in Portal, Arizona.

Rick Beno has built his Confering With the Sky observatory (upper left) into his home in Arizona Sky Ranch at Portal, Arizona. Inside Beno uses a Meade LX200 16 inch telescope.

Part of the Milky Way is visible just above this street sign (cloudy purple area) in Arizona Sky Village in Arizona Sky Ranch at
Portal, Arizona.

Jack Newton stands in the shutter of his observatory dome where he operates a Meade 20 inch RCX 400 telescope at his home in Arizona Sky Village in Portal, Arizona.

Gene Turner views the sun through his Teleview Refractor Solarscope outside his home in Arizona Sky Village in Portal, Arizona.

Gene Turner moves the community's Starmaster 30 inch telescope from his home for a night of outdoor viewing into the Sonoran desert in Arizona Sky Ranch in Portal, Arizona.

Gene Turner makes adjustments to the community's Starmaster 30 inch telescope from his home for a night of outdoor viewing into the Sonoran desert in Arizona Sky Ranch in Portal, Arizona.

Gene and Loy Turner study a chart that shows positions of the stars and constellations in the dining room of their home at Arizona Sky Ranch in Portal, Arizona. Behind them is one of their telescopes, "the big daddy," as Gene calls it, a 30 inch Starmaster, the largest scope used by amateur astronomers according to Turner.

Gene Turner uses the laser collimator to align the primary and secondary mirrors on the community's 30 inch Starmaster telescope.

Roy Morrow sorts through a case of lenses for his telescope.