Sky and Rockets

Looks like 2019 is starting to have some more clear nights than last year. Of course, we are only in February, but so far, so good! In lat...

The storm moved through, the skies cleared and so I set up in the freezing cold and wind to capture the best placed lunar eclipse in a long ...

I really like colorful astro images, but every now and then an object lends itself to just plain 'ol mono, albeit in this case mono at a...

Back in early December I took 22 Ha subs of the Heart Nebula (IC 1805).  Then had to wait until early January to complete the imaging. On Ja...

Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera shuts down The Hubble Space Telescope's premier camera has shut down because of a hardw...

NASA's New Horizons spacecraft flew past Ultima Thule in the early hours of New Year's Day, ushering in the era of exploration fro...

What a year.  I don't think I've had more than 20 nights that were good for astrophotography. Although I did notice that I have abo...

Thanksgiving night was a good clear evening, and I wanted to get some Sii subs to add to the Wizard Nebula that I imaged earlier this month....

After capturing the remaining green and blue subs on November 4th, I was able to complete the RGBHa composite of the Cocoon nebula.  I had a...

Clear skies are hard to come by these past 2 years, so when they do come along you gotta take advantage of them. Early November was a good t...

Credit: NASA/Johns Hopkins APL/Ed Whitman High-Res Image Hours before the rise of the very star it will study, NASA’s Parker Solar Probe...