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Horsehead and Flame Revisited – Ten Months Later, the Journey and the...
Happy New Year, readers! It was a good year for my photography. I did not spend as much time seeking out birds and wildlife as I usually do, but 2014 was a year packed full of learning a new form of...
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It’s Comet Time Again! Lovejoy, C/2014 Q2
Welcome to Comet Lovejoy! This is a naked-eye comet visible in the northern hemisphere, west of the constellation Orion. My first comet image in some time, and first “proper” comet image, this image...
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The Stellar Rose
One of my first images as a novice astrophotographer last year was the Rosette Nebula. Rosette is so named because it looks somewhat like a rose. My original attempt was decent for a beginner, but this...
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Andromeda Galaxy – M31, M32 & M110
Andromeda Galaxy. It’s one of our closest neighbor galaxies, the closest full size spiral galaxy such as our own, the Milky Way. It lies about 2 million light years away within our local group, which...
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The Whirlpool Galaxy – M51
One of the more interesting galaxies in the night sky, M51 or the Whirlpool Galaxy is actually two galaxies. M51 itself, sometimes denoted M51a, is the primary galaxy, a beautiful full spiral galaxy...
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The Blue Horsehead
Tucked away in the constellation Scorpius, near the bright star that mark’s the great arachnid’s upper claw, is the faint and delicate shape of a horses head. Cool blue, shrouded in a cloak of faint...
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Nebula of the Core: Lagoon and Trifid
The summer Milky Way is a spectacular sight when seen from truly dark skies. It is an arcing swath of gray glow and shadow, comprised of an immense volume of stars, gas and dust. It is a sad state of...
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Lunar Eclipse Totality Triad
On September 27th, 2015 we had the fourth of the recent tetrad of lunar eclipses. A tetrad is a somewhat uncommon occurrence with eclipses, where four eclipses occur within the span of two years. They...
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Dark and Dusty – Snake Nebula
When the Milky Way rolls around during the summer, a number of intriguing objects appear that are not visible at any other time of the year: Dark Nebula silhouetted against the backdrop of billions of...
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The Eagle and The Omega
Near the core of the Milky Way, during the summer when it is visible in the night sky, a large number of emission nebula can be found. In the past I’ve shared images of Lagoon and Trifid nebulas. Just...
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