Solar System

This was taken with my smartphone, proving again that these devices have some marginal value beyond looking at pictures of...

About 90 minutes before sunset the Moon’s crescent stood out in front of a paling blue sky through wisping clouds...

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.