Panelists for the Google+ Hangout are:• +C. Alex Young solar physicist, associate director for Science in the Heliophysics Science Division and co-founder of The Sun Today… Read More »NASA Hangout on Comet ISON Thursday: 10am PST
Earlier this week the newly-discovered Comet C/2013 R1 Lovejoy was 10X brighter than ISON, so that's what I went out to capture at 3 am… Read More »Comet ISON Brightens 16X, Now Naked Eye Object
I'm gearing up for a great season of astrophotography in the clear, dry, cold, high altitude skies of the Eastern Sierra region of California and… Read More »The Orion Nebula
The Orionid meteor shower peaked last night. With the nearly-full moon in the sky I didn't shoot the Orionid meteor shower this year, but here's… Read More »Orionid Meteor Shower
Sun rays, also known as crepuscular rays, usually appear to converge on their source, the sun. Crepuscular rays can also appear to come from the… Read More »Vanishing Point: Crepuscular Rays
Although the Quadrantid meteor shower is known as a “strong” shower, it can be very variable from year to year and its peak is very… Read More »Quadrantid Meteor Over Death Valley Hills