Astronomy & Astrophotography

The current positions and timing of our planets offer an opportunity to see both Jupiter and Venus in the sky...

Above Leo and to the left you can see Coma Berenices. It sort of blends in with the other fainter...

If you look closely above and to the left of the Moon, you can see stars. They were not visible...

For the Spring Triangle, you are seeing the complete and full dimensions of the source image.

I will say this for cloudy weekdays – at least I don’t have to make up excuses for not taking...

Just one problem, though – the Moon was approaching Full and washed much of the sky out. So I settled...

The Moon is now significant higher than Venus after Sunset, and fuller. So I took my digital camera and tripod...

Despite the unseasonably cold chill (the reason I have not posted anything for several weeks), I set up my camera...

The beaming Moon, contrasted to the blurry haze of last night’s, was too tempting a target not to get my...

Auriga is in an interesting part of the sky for another reason, as the boundary between the surrounding star activity.