Astronomy & Astrophotography

It will be a challenge to get the ISO and exposures right, since Saturn is fainter than Jupiter.

On Sunday night yesterday, I attempted more pictures during the ISS’s even longer four-minute flyby.

This is likely a plane’s fuselage. But it just seemed awfully high in the sky for a commercial plane. What...

Five weeks. That is how long I had to wait from my first session photographing Leo the Lion to my...

Here is a tip for checking camera settings on an image. Most newer cameras should store these settings as part...

The Memorial Day weekend provided a few good nights of clear or mostly clear skies.

Normally I complain about my blocked view of the East sky, due to trees and neighbors’ houses. But sometimes the...

I attempted to put together a sequence of Jupiter images to make an animation.

Here are the several other Jupiter images from the past week I did not post about previously on this blog.

The important aspect of this picture is that it captures all of Jupiter’s Galilean moons.