Cosmology

09/15/2022

My first Saturn pic of the season. Not my greatest, but still some nice detail.

Date: September 14, 2022 9:34pm CDT
Telescope: Zhumell Z12 Dob
Eyepiece: Explore Scientific 82° 11mm Plossl
Lens: Celestron Luminos 2.5X barlow
Camera: LG V60 phone
250 x 1/100 @ ISO 400

05/17/2022

I'll briefly change it up from eclipse shots. :) But only a bit since, I obviously love shooting and sharing pictures of the moon. Here's one through my telescope that I shot in Whiskeytown National Recreation Area about 10 miles from my house as a crescent moon sets over Shasta Bally (not Mt. Shasta) about 5 miles distant from where my camera was placed. I love both the shape of the crescent moon and how you can often see the full moon illuminated faintly by Earth Shine which is light from the sun that has reflected off the Earth. This is an old picture from 2013 that I've always meant to recreate now that I have better equipment and am a much better photographer. But I'll have to find another location since these trees burnt in 2018. Hope you enjoy! :)

03/10/2022

02/21/2022

NGC 7380 Wizard Nebula in Cepheus.

02/14/2022

01/16/2022

Possibly the largest known structure in the universe that astronomers have discovered, it is a cluster of active galactic nuclei that stretches 4 billion light-years from end to end. The structure is a Light Quasar Group (LQG), a collection of extremely luminous galactic Nulcei powered by central supermassive black holes.

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NASA art visualization

01/05/2022

Sunset on Mars.