“Moonrise in Real Time: Celestial movement at human speed” Full Moon Silhouettes from Mark Gee on Vimeo. Please don’t watch this without the volume up and fullscreen. (*Watch it first, then read my thoughts): If you watch the silhouettes, an entire lifetime can play out like a movie. The scene starts with a young […]
13Deg 8:00pm – 8:30pm FREEZING! Seriously… Tonight, the Moon and Jupiter are very close; within a moon diameter – two at most. Tried to image them in the same frame but my equipment didn’t allow for that. (Thank goodness my new camera/telescope adapters are coming in tomorrow!) Anyways, got two good shots out of the […]
This is a (zoom-able) *billion pixel image of the center of our Milky Way galaxy. See the white ‘haze’? Zoom in… Those are all stars. All Suns. Let me repeat that: those are all SUNS! Every one of them. IMAGINE what’s out there! And this is an image of a pretty small section of […]
On February 14, 1990, while the Voyager 1 spacecraft reached the edge of the solar system, Carl Sagan suggested that the spacecraft turn around and take one last image of the Earth. NASA agreed and took one of the most iconic photographs ever. The image returned was of Earth showing up as a pale blue dot in […]
32Deg 10:00pm – 10:30pm FREEZING outside. I know it only says 32, but the wind is blowing and it feels a LOT colder than that. Got my first decent picture of Ceres tonight. Man, I LOVE my Canon T3. It makes everything so much easier and better. Anyways, the image of Ceres isn’t ‘good’ by […]
Most people are familiar with a supernova – the most violent event in the known universe. Supernova happen when a super-massive star reaches old age and has fused most of its lighter elements into heavier elements and basically runs out of fuel. The gravity of the star pushing inwards overcomes the pressure of the heat […]
Just finished watching the Goonies and decided I really wanted that treasure map… so I made one!
Yet another APoD I have to comment on: Not only is it crazy to think that our entire solar system (including Pluto) – traveling at hundreds of kilometers per second – could fit into the blue pinpoint heads of these spires, the image itself was captured using an adaptive optics system using five laser generated guide stars to […]
07-01-2013 30DegF 7:30pm – 10:30pm Dark skies. COLD (dressed in warm layers), but it was definitely worth it. I feel like a legitimate amateur astronomer after tonight’s images. Pretty happy with them. Imaged with DSI II & Canon T3 Orion Nebula, Jupiter, and (hopefully) Ceres Scope well aligned and focused (for me anyway) -pics of […]
I just came across one of my most favorite APoD‘s to date and really feel like I need to re-post it here. There’s little I could add to the existing description to enhance the awe factor so instead, here it is verbatim: “Explanation: Like a ship plowing through cosmic seas, runaway star Zeta Ophiuchi produces the arcing interstellar […]