Starship Asterisk*

The morning sky has been looking incredible lately...lots of objects in the night sky. Starting from the bottom: Moon, Venus, Jupiter, Pleiades, and Betelgeuse/Bellatrix and Orion's Belt of the Constellation Orion on the right. Photo was taken August 14th, 2012 near Tucson, Arizona. Canon 5DMKII NIK...

http://img703.imageshack.us/img703/3069/bluemoonsmall.jpg Last blue moon until july 2015 http://img577.imageshack.us/img577/7820/fullmoonsmall.jpg Blue moon in detail. This is 6 photos taken through a 14" Meade LX 200 and stitched in PS6. http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/3940/moonpeeksmall.jpg...

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc7/329224_497152020312272_55620365_o.jpg I finally tried out the Comet Star Trail technique using some time-lapse frames over the largest aperture solar telescope in the world, The McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. I ...

More like "Watch for Perseids" Took me quite a few shots to get this the other night during my camp out during the Perseid meteor shower, but it finally paid off. Canon 5DMKII NIKKOR 24mm 2.8 with nikon adapter ISO 3200 at 20 seconds https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/431156_49113...

"Watch for Perseids"

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I caught one in the milky way!

Star Trail composition of 424 still frames from a Milky Way time lapse shot over the largest solar telescope in the world, the McMath-Peirce Solar Telescope at Kitt Peak National Observatory in Tucson, Arizona. Camera settings: Canon 5D MKII / Nikon 14mm 25 Second exposures at F/2.8 ISO3200 https://...

The McMath-Pierce solar telescope is the world's largest solar telescope, and the world's largest unobstructed-aperture optical telescope with a diameter of 1.6 meters. Permanent instruments include a dual grating spectrograph capable of extended wavelength coverage (0.3-12 microns), a 1-meter Four...

Venus Transit Sunset https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/s720x720/598841_459223850771756_1794386681_n.jpg H-A Venus Transit [attachment=0]sean2.jpg[/attachment] https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/461246_459296420764499_600195101_o.jpg https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamai...

Beautiful. Inspired me to use my own images:

Partial "Strawberry Moon" Eclipse https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/456443_10150997564319400_1365120879_o.jpg Andromeda Collision https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/465441_458059760888165_336780486349427_104597539_166543528_o.jpg Moon Halo https://fbcdn...

Last night's supermoon in Tucson, AZ

Frame from a milky way time lapse I shot last night at Lynx Lake in Prescott, Arizona during the Lyrid Meteor shower.

Frame from a milky way time lapse I shot last night at Lynx Lake in Prescott, Arizona during the Lyrid Meteor shower.



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Horsehead Nebula

Seantos, I like all of your images! I like your very blue and pink Orion Nebula. I like Venus and Jupiter through a Saguaro Cactus, with the Pleiades looking down on them from above. I like your star trail image too, particularly because I think I can identify some of the trails - that "cluste...

A lot of people forget how visible the Great Orion Nebula is through binoculars or your basic telescope on a clear dark night. "The Great Orion Nebula" https://fbcdn-sphotos-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-prn1/563783_396485020378973_336780486349427_1408472_1506472990_n.jpg Mid-March 2012 presen...

Hey Guys, Here are my Conjunction submissions: Mid-March 2012 presents the best time to see a Venus-Jupiter conjunction in the evening for years to come. At mid-northern latitudes, these two brightest planets – Venus and Jupiter – stay out for nearly four hours after sunset. That’s about the longest...

Waxing Gibbous Moon



An inverted perspective of the moon:
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Monday's Venus, Jupiter, and Waxing Crescent Moon alignment at St Augustine Cathedral.

Tonight's Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Waxing Crescent Moon in Tucson, Arizona.

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Tonight's Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, and Waxing Crescent Moon.

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Mercury, Crescent Moon, Venus, and Jupiter during Tucson, Arizona's Sunset: http://img9.imageshack.us/img9/7427/mercuryvenusjupitermoon.jpg http://img813.imageshack.us/img813/7427/mercuryvenusjupitermoon.jpg Crescent Moon, Venus, and Jupiter in downtown Tucson, Arizona http://img829.imageshack.us/im...

Milky Way in Prescott, AZ.

First full moon in 2012