Author: colt76foutz

Colt Foutz is an ex-newspaper-journalist, ex-teacher, ex-adman, and very current father of three. He currently leads the Digital Marketing Group at TransPerfect, the world's largest translations and global business services company. In his previous lives, Colt won numerous state and national awards as a reporter in Ohio and the Chicago suburbs, published a nonfiction book about the twenty-time world-champion Cavaliers Drum & Bugle Corps, served as director of creative services and search operations for Publicis Groupe's Performics and VivaKi agencies, and prepared for all of this by majoring in music composition at Carnegie Mellon University. (Right.) He holds a BFA in Creative Writing from CMU, and an MFA in Writing and MA in Teaching Writing from Columbia College Chicago. Colt's happiest happy place is on a wide-open beach in southern North Carolina, but you can usually find him happy all the same with his wife and kids in Sioux Falls, South Dakota.

Caldwell 80 Star Cluster

C80 Black Hole in Space Engine

I lucked out in catching Omega Centauri (C80 cluster) low in the North Carolina sky over the ocean in June. From Space Engine: A similar view of M2 from Earth. Here, There & In My Chair: C80 Part of the fun in my journey as "Telescoping Man" the past few years has been spending enough... Continue Reading →

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M45 Pleiades Open Cluster

M45 Pleiades Colt Foutz September 2024

Pleiades -- or at least part of it -- captured in mid-February in one of my first driveway sessions with the Seestar S50. Neighborhood haze and winter light giving things a greenish glow. Another try at the Pleiades, from darker skies in the Big Sioux Recreation Area on a windy March 1. Captured most of... Continue Reading →

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Jupiter and the Galilean Moons

Courtesy of National Geographic: Galileo Galilei explains the topography of the Moon, as well as the moons of Jupiter, to two church cardinals. Artwork by Jean-Leon Huens. Here, There & In My Chair: Jupiter Next to Saturn, Jupiter is probably the surest way to get a newbie to gasp when looking at the view through... Continue Reading →

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M2 Globular Cluster in Aquarius

M2 star cluster, photographed from my backyard in September 2024. Here, There & In My Chair with Messier 2 There are, by my count, 42 star clusters in Charles Messier's famous list of 110 deep space objects that are "not comets." And I'll confess: unless you've got a Hubble or James Webb telescope lying around... Continue Reading →

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Here, There & In My Chair: M1

HERE: M1, the Crab Nebula, shot March 2024 from Brandon, SD with my Seestar S50 camera scope. Crab Nebula: Deep Space Objects from Every Angle It's early autumn here in the States. Nights are getting cooler, and darker for longer. And I'm taking advantage of clear, still evenings to plot a few hours course around... Continue Reading →

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Eyes on the Starting Line

I found Ditmars Wine Run in 2023 on RunSignup when I was searching for a mid-summer tune-up heading into a September marathon. I ended up getting a cross-country-level workout -- and somehow won the race! Planning my Running & Racing Calendar Ah, January. Start to a new year. The opportunity to commit to resolutions: to... Continue Reading →

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