Dancing Northern Lights
Back in March we took a special trip up to Alaska with hopes of seeing the Northern Lights. I also miss winter (see: wildfires in LA in January). Having once Continue Reading →
Category: Astrophotography
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 →
2024 Wasn’t The Best For Pretty Photos
I don’t have a pretty little blog post of my 10 Best Photos From 2024! because 2024 kind of sucked, photo-wise. It didn’t suck life-wise, work-wise, or family-wise. All those Continue Reading →
Impatient Long Exposure Mess-up
Description: I’m not sure why I like this mess-up. I was taking a vertical photo, or maybe it was a horizontal, and wanted to move the camera to the other 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. ?
Experimenting With Telescopes
Description: Digital goto telescopes are making astronomy in big cities stupid easy these days. And I’m jumping on the bandwagon at least to take a look and see how I Continue Reading →