Neowise Over Plumas Lake
On July 13th 2020 I captured this image of Comet Neowise setting to the West at 9:15 pm. Canon 6d – 15 second exposure – 1250 ISO – 50mm lense C/2020 F3 or Comet NEOWISE is a long period comet with a near-parabolic orbit discovered on March 2...
Go Flight – Mars 2020
Send your name to Mars! NASA’s Mars 2020 Rover is heading to the Red Planet. Submit your name by Sept. 30, 2019, 11:59 p.m. ET, and fly along! https://mars.nasa.gov/participate/send-your-name/mars2020 ...
Beam’ a Greeting to New Horizons!
Team to Transmit Messages to the Spacecraft During New Year’s Flyby in the Kuiper Belt NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft has traveled 13 years to reach the heart of the Kuiper Belt – but you can get there in a matter of hours! In 2005, more than 430...
Aqua Caliente Star Party
One of my favorite places to hold a star party is in the desert east of San Diego. On Tuesday March 7th, 2017 I headed out to Aqua Caliente County Park to meetup with a dear friend Sandy H. and her band of home school parents and teachers. We had a lovely even...
Now Playing – The Stars – The Moon – And 9 Planets!
Astrophotos
Orion Nebula
The Orion Nebula is a diffuse nebula situated south of Orion’s Belt...
Horsehead Nebula
The Horsehead Nebula (also known as Barnard 33 in emission nebula IC 4...
Milky Way
The Milky Way is the galaxy that contains our Solar System. Its name â...
Comet Panstarrs
C/2011 L4 (PANSTARRS) is a non-periodic comet discovered in June 2011...
Moon Eclipse 2007
A lunar eclipse occurs when the Moon passes directly behind the Earth...
Messier 55
Messier 55 (also known as M55 or NGC 6809 or “The Summer Rose St...