Astronomy Nightly

Venus is currently transiting the sun.  This will be the last time until 2117.  Here are some shots of the transit sized to 2048x2048 pixels.  Enjoy! …

I shot the solar eclipse from the south part of Las Vegas, NV.  I set up my old Celestron 80ED refractor (600mm f/7.5) on my CGEM mount.  I shot throu…

I'm still digging through the 1500 photos I took today of the eclipse.  Here's a teaser image... This image was taken by Bryan Duke from Henderson, NV…

Pete Mumbower has an outstanding idea for making a Celestron CGEM mount easier to polar align. He adds "Slick Strips" to the top of the tripod where t…

My old C8 is gone and I have a new Explore Scientific 127ED in its place.  Here's the new scope on my CGEM. A simple moon shot was the first photo tar…

During the trip last weekend to Mahogany Flat Campground, a good friend of mine, Jason Dotter, shot this time lapse sequence of the Milky Way. http://…

I just got back from a dark-sky trip to Mahogany Flat Campground in Death Valley National Monument. I captured this image of the recently discovered s…

For full disclosure, I need to share that I had a photo in the running for the Lion background image. The photo that has that honor is way better than…

If you are an astrophotographer that uses a digital SLR, I hope your camera has a live view capability.  It's a game changer for quickly focusing your…

I took a trip to Death Valley National Monument a week ago.  You'd think that August in Death Valley would be suicide - and rightly so.  However, the …