Sky and Rockets

Finally got my "Best of" video for last year done.  Check it out at: Mikey's Best of 2017-18  https://youtu.be/VRyTXA6UUis

One of the things we astro-photographers do when its cloudy is spend time doing the post processing of the images we've taken when t...

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...