Solar System

I had great difficulty locating Saturn that night and it was almost 20 minutes before I locked on.

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...

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...

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

Apparently it is possible to get Jupiter and its moons into the same picture.

I was surprised and a little alarmed at how the sky was brightened.