The Evening Show

On September 11, 2010 I snapped some photos of the Moon and some interesting storm clouds. I did not even realize at the time that Venus was in the shot until I went back and reprocessed the data and checked the location of Venus in TheSkyX. I had posted a redder version of this on my Facebook ...

On Novmber 28th, 2012 the Moon and Jupiter made a beautiful pair in the sky. Wanting some context, I set up my tripod in the backyard and took two exposures. One for the Moon and Jupiter, and one to get the Silhouette of the tree branches in the foreground. No scope, just a camera on a tripod... ...

I'm calling this the Sucker Hole of a Lifetime! Nearly the whole state of Florida was clouded out. I waited in a parking lot in the rain with an umbrella hoping for a little gap before the sun set. Got it!

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A thin cresent moon is alwasy a great subject for a wide field tripod shot. This was made with two exposures. One focused and exposed for the foreground trees, and the other for the moon. Composited in Photoshop... a manual HDR if you will. Nothing about the scale or position was changed.

On a trip to Stardust Ranch, I thought twice and decided to go ahead and bring the DSLR and tripod... just in case. I was sure glad I did! This shows the center of our Milky Way Galaxy along with several very bright hydrogen alpha regons (it was a modified camera). You can actually pick out a ...

This sight and the sound of thunder was very unnerving on an overnight camping tip to my favorite dark sky site. Fortunately it all stayed in the distance, but the light was incredable. There are actually stars in this picture btw...

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