Image: Geminid Meteor Shower over Nathrop, Colorado Although the Geminids are widely regarded as one of the best and most consistent meteor showers of the year, due to the meteor shower falling near the winter […]
Got to experience my first total solar eclipse today, and I now know why people travel around the world to see them. Although it ended up being clear throughout central CO and western NE, I […]
The Kp Index started roaring last night around 8 PM (6 predicted to 8 in the next four hours), so we rolled up to Loveland Pass (11,990′ MSL) to see what we could see. Unfortunately […]
So, looking out at the night sky, you just never know what you might see. Sitting in the living room last night at about 11:00 I looked out the window to the west, and saw […]
I processed a few more image sequences of Comet Lovejoy from last night’s shoot up on Guanella Pass. It is a long-period comet and is on its way out now; it will presumably continue to […]
One quick one from tonight’s trip up to the closure point of Guanella Pass at 10,800′ MSL. Pretty dark and cold up there, and for some reason the image looks quite a bit different than […]
Now, I like a good lunar eclipse as much as the next astrophotography-loving guy, but I have to admit that I’m not dedicated enough to sit up all night in 30-degree weather to capture one. […]
This morning I was alerted to the fact that Space.com published one of my images back in November. It was the star trail composite of the ‘Tribute Hike’ lights meandering down a Loveland Pass ridge […]
Long live Comet ISON, Comet ISON is dead. I watched NASA’s live webcast of their various imagers pointed at the sun for Comet ISON’s perihelion, including the real-time data from the SDO, or Solar Dynamics […]
I spent this morning compiling 10 minutes worth of image captures of Comet ISON on 11/16/13 into a time-lapse video that reveals some interesting things in the tail of the comet. 135 images spanning from […]
This morning’s forecast was again for several levels of high clouds, but at 4:33 AM my brain went off and I had to get up and look outside. One narrow roller of cirrocumulus was making […]
So in the last 24 hours, Comet ISON (C/2012 S1) has brightened considerably, becoming nearly naked-eye visible at a magnitude <6.0 (meaning in a dark-sky environment, one could see the coma unaided). I awoke at […]
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