2019-01-31 06:44
Here's a few images from the Total Lunar Eclipse from the night of January 20 (MST). We visited our land in the Dragoon Mountain foothills, setting up my Celestron 8 inch telescope to… Read More
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A more or less daily photoblog with favorites of my photographs. Subjects are typically nature, landscape, astrophotos, existing light.
2018-08-19 07:37
This view of a storm cloud south of Kitt Peak was made in mid-twilight. Just around sunset, the clouds were the site of bright lightning but it had stopped generating lightning by the… Read More
2018-08-08 04:11
Mars rises over the Dragoon Mountains from our ranch in the foothills west of the Dragoons. Mars is just right of center and there's a nice rainstorm in the twilight skies off to… Read More
2018-01-31 14:25
The Total Lunar Eclipse on 2018 January 31 is well under way with the Penumbra covering the whole Moon but here, the Umbra has just made contact with the Moon. This image was taken wit… Read More
2018-01-06 12:36
Jupiter and Mars are in conjunction tonight at less than half a degree apart. This first image was taken with my Canon 6D on my 8 inch Celestron EdgeHD telescope with an exposure of 1/… Read More
2018-01-06 08:47
Tonight's Moon as it approaches last quarter. This image was taken with my Canon 6D attached to my Celestron EdgeHD 8 inch telescope with an exposure of 1/500 seconds at f/10, ISO 400 Read More
2018-01-05 06:05
Sunset o Kitt Peak on December 27, 2017. This is an HDR combine showing a view similar to what I saw in real time. This is a combine of 5 exposures with my 50mm f/1.8 lens attach… Read More
2018-01-04 07:01
On Friday December 22, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Iridium 4 payload into orbit from Vandeberg AFB. The cool thing was that the launch occured not long after s… Read More
2017-11-23 04:26
Kitt Peak in the distanceI drove over Gates Pass road into the desert just west of Gates Pass in Tucson Mountain Park for the sunset yesterday. This first image is the view looking wes… Read More
2017-10-12 08:17
I recently purchased the Aurora 2018 HDR software and have found it relatively easy to use with many presets tailored to many different types of imagery. My most recent eclipse p… Read More
2017-10-01 22:08
I recently installed the Aurora 2018 HDR software on my PC and here are a couple different HDR combines which greatly enhance the detail in the solar corona as well as helping to bring out t… Read More
2017-09-06 00:55
Last night while waiting to observe on the 4-Meter Mayall telescope on Kitt Peak, a lightning storm passed to the southwest of Kitt Peak. Here is some lightning to the southwest of the… Read More
2017-09-03 04:23
My eclipse photography plan during totality was to take a sequence of images with exposures tailored to see both the bright prominences and the faint outer corona, so my exposures were a set… Read More
2017-09-02 08:03
After seeing the August 21, 2017 Total Solar Eclipse, we headed for Mount St. Helens, the volcano in southwestern Washington that produced the largest volcanic eruption of the 20th century a… Read More
2017-09-02 07:33
The following images were taken midway through totality using my Canon 70D with my 70-200mm lens. The images used a 2 stop bracket with mid exposure of 1/30 seconds at f/8, ISO 200 and… Read More
2017-08-29 19:00
These images show the sunspot groups that were visible on the face of the Sun during the partial phase of the 2017 August 21 total eclipse.The first image was taken on August 20, 2017, the d… Read More
2017-08-29 17:00
This image was taken at the end of the total phase of the 2017 August 21 total solar eclipse just as the Sun reappeared on the west side of the Moon. This image was taken with my 8 inc… Read More
2017-08-29 15:00
This image was taken just before the photosphere reappeared on the west side of the Sun at the end of the total phase of the 2017 August 21 total eclipse. This image was taken with my… Read More
2017-08-29 08:32
During the total solar eclipse on 2017 August 21, I shot a sequence of 5 exposures, each 2 stops from its neighbor, in order to get reasonable exposures on prominences on the bright end the… Read More
2017-08-06 04:44
The August 21st Solar Eclipse is just 16 days away so it's time to practice some setup and photography of the Sun. In this case, I used my Canon 6D with its full frame sensor on my Cel… Read More
2017-07-17 21:55
Last night while between local storms on Kitt Peak, I watched some storms around the area. This one to the northwest of Kitt Peak was quite pretty and spectacular at the same time. &nb&hell…Read More
2017-07-05 01:55
The Summer Milky Way sets over the little Tohono O'Odham town of Sells as viewed from Kitt Peak. The exposure was made with my Canon 70D using a 17-70mm Sigma lens at 17mm focal length… Read More
2017-07-05 01:29
While taking a timelapse of the summer Milky Way my sequence caught the International Space Station flying over in the morning twilight. Some clouds are moving in from the left and the… Read More
2017-06-01 08:27
Last Saturday night I set up my Celestron 8 inch EdgeHD telescope in my back yard. I attached my Canon 70D with a 0.7x focal reducer (so I could fit the entire Moon on my APS-C sensor)… Read More
2017-05-28 17:00
The view of sunset from Kitt Peak can be quite spectacular. Of course, a pretty cloud filled sunset does not normally bode well for the nights observing program.... This Sun Dog w… Read More
2017-05-27 07:50
Exposure 1 second at f/2.8, ISO 1600, 17mm f.l.While in downtown Tucson one evening, I couldn't help but admire this scene with the tallest building in town lit nicely by the city lights.Exp… Read More
2016-08-08 07:05
Saturday night featured some impressive lightning storms in the distance as I was preparing to observe from Kitt Peak. Most of the lightning storms were probably at least 30 miles away… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This was the view from our hotel room in Cameron Arizona of the Little Colorado. Cameron Arizona is a little town east of the east entrance to the Grand Canyon National Park. The… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
There are no bad views in the Grand Canyon. This view up canyon from Yavapai Point shows the layering really well in the bright sunlight. At the right along the rim is Des… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
We watched the sunset during our Grand Canyon trip last month from next to the Watchtower at Desert View near the eastern entrance to the Grand Canyon. I was hoping for a more colorful… Read More
2016-03-19 18:53
This view from Yavapai Point in the Grand Canyon shows many of the canyon's features also visible from the area around the main visitors center. You can see the trail out to Plateau Po… Read More
2016-01-18 04:02
I set up my Celestron 8 inch EdgeHD today on the off chance I might be able to see the Falcon 9 Jason 3 launch from Vandenberg this morning. I didn't (except for the live feed on the w… Read More
2016-01-12 17:03
In the Summer of 2014, we visited Oregon, doing volcanoes southbound and then up the coast visiting lighthouses. This is the Bandon Lighthouse on the south side of the Coquille River… Read More
2016-01-12 00:00
Not a good night for observing on Kitt Peak. The Steward Observatory 90 inch Bok Telescope is just visible through the summit level clouds as the Sun sets on the western horizon.  &hell…Read More
2015-10-08 07:53
We were observing at the Steward Observatory 90 inch Bok Telescope last week and this was the view we had of the morning twilight sky. On the left is the dome of the telescope and you… Read More
2015-07-13 23:15
Here are two views of last nights sunset from our backyard, both taken with my Galaxy Note 4's camera with different white balances. The shadows on the upper clouds caught my attention… Read More
2015-07-12 07:30
I watched a nice lightning storm over the Tucson area tonight after sunset. Lightning appeared over Oro Valley and Mount Lemmon while it was mostly clear overhead on Kitt Peak. Th… Read More
2015-07-02 06:49
As Venus and Jupiter were getting very close together this past week, it's been cloudy in Tucson and I only got a brief hazy glimpse of them about 5 days ago. Tonight on my way home, t… Read More
2015-06-22 11:52
While observing on Kitt Peak, I get to watch a number of different types of birds flying overhead. Big ones love to make use of the updrafts and some play around with the domes, flying… Read More
2015-01-29 23:22
I was out in the Tucson Mountains last night taking pictures of the celestial show in the western sky, namely Venus, the Moon and Mercury. Got a late start and almost missed Mercury! T… Read More
2014-09-09 08:52
One of the youngest lava flows in Oregon occured in the Newberry Volcano only 1300 years ago. The third image from my last post shows the Obsidian flow from near the highest point… Read More
2014-08-14 07:48
If you visit Newberry Volcano be sure to drive up the narrow dirt road to the top of Paulina Peak where you'll get these spectacular views of the caldera as well as distant mountains like th… Read More
2014-08-08 07:44
While visiting Lava Butte, the Ranger at the lookout at the top of Lava Butte pointed out the less than completely prominent rise towards the south and said that that was the largest volcano… Read More
2014-08-01 04:46
After visiting Lava Butte at Lava Lands south of Bend Oregon, we headed for nearby Lava River Caves. These caves resulted from lava flows in the Newberry Volcano complex which includes… Read More
2014-07-26 09:15
On our way to Crater Lake, we stopped at the Lava fields at the base of Lava Butte and took the road up to the summit of the cinder cone. The lava fields and cinder cones south of Bend… Read More
2014-07-25 05:25
Our Oregon vacation had a couple of major goals. First on the list was volcanoes, especially Crater Lake, and I had planned from day one to drive past the Three Sisters volcanoes on th… Read More
2014-07-24 07:03
During our 10 nights of vacation, we camped out 5 nights and stayed in hotels the other 5 nights, mixing in some refreshing showers and even a jacuzzi one night.Our first campsite on W… Read More
2014-07-24 05:53
We spent 10 days in Oregon and California for our summer vacation. We headed south from Portland and concentrated on volcanoes and then drove up highway 101 and visited and saw 7 light… Read More
2014-07-03 17:52
On the way home last night just before sunset, I saw a potential thunderstorm coming in to Tucson from the southeast so I took a detour up to A Mountain (aka Sentinal Peak). It's got s… Read More
2014-06-26 07:50
In 1971, the mission of Apollo 14 flew to the Moon and landed Alan Shepard and Edgar Mitchell near Cone Crater in the Fra Mauro Highlands. Orbiting above the Moon was Stuart Roosa, the… Read More
2014-06-05 11:55
The beginning of morning twilight has started so the sky is very blue. Near the top left of this image is a meteor streaking through the sky in the edge of our Milky Way Galaxy. … Read More
2014-06-04 07:53
These first 2 images are 30 second exposures at f/2.8, ISO 400, taken back to back. The first shows the ISS trailing over the planet Mars while the 2nd it is above the star Arcturus.&n&hell…Read More
2014-06-03 08:53
Tonight featured a very nice, relatively bright pass of the International Space Station overhead. Ever since I was a young boy watching SkyLab fly over, I've almost always waved at a m… Read More
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