"For the sage, time is only of significance in that within it the steps of becoming can unfold in clearest sequence."

— I Ching

Astrophotography

The dark side of photography. Deep space and planetary imaging. Occasionally some day light pictures of the Sun.

M44 Beehive

M44 Beehive

California Nebula

California Nebula

Infinite Dreams

I hope you all like this picture.  It looked yellow when I saw it but I don't see yellow in the pic.  When the moon was appearing over the rooftops it looked bigger and like I was looking through a soap bubble.  Weird.  I hope this file is not too big or redundant.  I thought it was interesting.   I seem to be taking a lot of moon pics lately.  By the time I got the camera out the buble effect disappeared.  I set the cam to manual exposure and manual focus.  Now that I think some more...

Infinite Dreams

Flaming star nebula

Warm, temps in the 30's.
Straight overhead and far enough away from the full moon in Auriga.
Two hour shot in pseudo-color and H alpha.

Flaming star nebula

MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

MOON AIRLINES

MOON AIRLINES

NGC-2244

Balmy temps in the upper 20's lured me out to do some imaging.
This one is  a one hour combined exposure in false color.

NGC-2244

FULL MOON

HAND HELD PIC USING NEW CAM.

FULL MOON