Category: Space
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Send Your Name To The Sun!
As you guys can tell by now with all of my astrophotography shots, I am a huge space nerd. So, when I saw this opportunity to send my name to the name to the Sun, you can bet I signed up! And if you want to send your name to the Sun, you can sign…
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Galaxy NGC 2841 – My latest Astrophoto
Thanks to the full moon, it will be a few days before I am able to get back out with my telescope and start imaging again but I did get a pretty good shot on Sunday night of the distant galaxy NGC 2841. I’m starting to notice that I have reached the limit of what…
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My Latest Astrophotography Shots: the Moon!
I always dislike this part of the lunar cycle because the amount of light reflected off of the moon makes it much more difficult to shoot a lot of the deep space objects I typically like to try to image like galaxies and nebulas. If I do any astrophotography near the full moon, I usually…
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A Galaxy Far Far Away – NGC 2403
Over the weekend we had some nice, clear skies so like usual, I was out taking full advantage of them and pointing my telescope out into the cosmos. In this particular case, I was pointing them at the galaxy NGC 2403. The picture above is my my photo (click here for the full size image)…
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My Super Blood Moon Eclipse Picture
Hopefully you got to go out last night and see the incredible lunar eclipse that was a supermoon and a blood moon. I helped run an event with my local astronomical society and we had probably the biggest turnout we have ever seen with probably somewhere around 400 people showing up. It was crazy! A…
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Times for this weekend’s Lunar Eclipse
I don’t know about you, but I am really excited for this weekend’s (September 27-28th) lunar eclipse which will feature a blood red supermoon! I will be helping staff an event for it with my local astronomical society but for those that just want to check it out from their backyard, below is a chart…