Starship Asterisk*

https://c1.staticflickr.com/9/8077/28680524600_b92a90990c.jpg Perseid Meteor Shower 2016 by Jeff Sullivan , on Flickr I've been chasing every meteor shower that I could see with my camera since 2009. This year's Perseid meteor shower was one of the best I've photographed so far. This composite with...

Composite image of the Perseid meteor shower last year, captured on a Canon 5D Mark III DSLR over the course of 3 hours. The DSLR was on a on a fixed tripod without sky tracking, so the meteors reflect some movement of the radiant point of the meteor shower. https://c3.staticflickr.com/6/5821/199502...

Space debris enters the atmosphere near Mammoth Lakes, California at 9:37 pm July 27, identified as the second stage from the first Chang Zheng 7 rocket, which was launched Jun 25. A sonic boom arrived 8 minutes later at 9:45 pm. The image was captured on a Canon EOS 6D camera and Canon 14mm f/2.8 l...

There were at least 4 active meteor showers during the last week of July. On July 26 I saw 3 or 4 meteors per hour looking towards the galactic center, but many were missed due to the 20mm field of view, or the shutter not being open. https://c4.staticflickr.com/9/8795/27975824523_10982ea03e.jpg Del...

Hi, I'm Jeff Sullivan. I grew up watching the Apollo missions on TV, as well as Carl Sagan's Cosmos series. I received a 60mm telescope in 8th grade and took a photography course to learn 35mm photography and darkroom processing. While in college at U.C. Berkeley I photographed the first space shutt...