M57
It’s taken several months to get this image. Long, painful months, but I’m glad I persevered. It all started after NEAF in April. NEAF is the Northeast Astronomy Forum, the […]
Islands In the Night
The Pleiades
The Pleiades, also known as the Seven Sisters and M45, are a great fall and winter treat in the night sky. To my eyes they look like a small cloud […]
Orion
I took some baby steps into astrophotography over the summer with the milky way image. This time I take a larger step forward. The camera is riding on a Losmandy […]
Total Solar Eclipse 2017
I didn’t think I was going to get to see the total eclipse but a couple of weeks out we realized we could and made arrangements to stay with Lauren […]
Milky Way at Zenith
This is my first attempt at stacking images for astrophotography. The camera was set on a tripod and pointed straight up. Around a dozen 30-second exposures were taken along with […]
Aurora In Virginia
It isn’t often that an aurora is visible in Virginia. I saw one at C.M. Crockett Park in the 90’s and this one in October, 2003. To the unaided eye […]
