The Best Reason To Bring A Tripod To Alaska
Bringing a beefy, professional tripod to Alaska wasn’t on the top of my list. I was already packing enough to make sure I stayed comfortable while my wife and I Continue Reading →
Category: Astronomy
Milky Way Over Yosemite Valley
A few cars trickle into Yosemite Valley while the Milky Way begins it’s rise over Half Dome
See Things Flying Past El Capitan
Description: It’s possible you don’t know the pain of trying to get a ‘clean’ 30 second photo of El Capitan in the mid-evening. It’s not easy with Yosemite being near Continue Reading →
The Largest Solar Telescope In The World Is On Maui
Description: Just down from Haleakal?’s 10,023′ summit is a batch of telescopes. Among them is the impressive Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope. Completed in 2017, the telescope sits above about Continue Reading →
Under The 100″ Mount Wilson Telescope
Description: This one is beautiful in its abstractness. I messed with the colors a little but it was fairly monochrome to start with. Can you guess what it is? Here’s Continue Reading →
Camping With The Comet
Description: It’s been a couple of weeks since my first glimpse of Comet C/2023 A3 (Tsuchinshan–ATLAS) in Yosemite and in that time it has grown dimmer. So dim that this Continue Reading →
Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas Above Yosemite Valley
Description: Sometimes you need to plan in order to get the photo you want. When I heard that our latest comet visitor, Comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas, was visible to the naked eye Continue Reading →
Mount Wilson’s 60″ Telescope
Description: Now this is what you think of when someone says “big telescope”. While it is not the largest in the world, it is world-class and over 100 years old. Continue Reading →
Antenna Galaxies
Description: Lots of things to see in the night sky. Location: Space Photograph copyright Peter West Carey. All rights reserved. ?
Jupiter As Seen Through A 60″ Telescope
Description: This last weekend my brother Daniel and I rented time at the Mount Wilson Observatory, reserving the 60-inch telescope for the entire night. We signed up in April, not Continue Reading →