Tag Archives: astrophotography

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11/12/13: An alternate view of our Galaxy

Every star we see in the night sky is lies within our own Milky Way Galaxy. Only a very few other local group galaxies are visible with the naked eye on a very dark night, […]

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10/11/13: ‘Milky Way + Hikers’ Star Trail Composite

Today I spent some time compositing the  images from Tuesday night’s time-lapse into one single image. A total of 159 30-second images (from 10:02 to 11:29 PM) were used in the image below, and effectively […]

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10/8/13: A tribute to the fallen, a night hike for Timothy Fulkerson on Loveland Pass, CO

As I was setting up my camera gear to try and capture the aurora last night on top of 11,990′ Loveland Pass, I heard voices off in the distance. Voices? I thought I was alone […]

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1/21/13: Moon and Jupiter

Tonight’s moon and Jupiter, the bright spot of Copernicus Crater highlighted at the moon’s interior 9-o’clock position. Quite a treat after tonight’s gorgeous sunset, Jupiter is visually closer to the moon than it will be […]

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10/2/12: ISS Lunar Transit photographed from Golden, CO

At 6:35 AM this morning, the International Space Station made a somewhat rare lunar transit which was observable here in Golden, Colorado, passing in front of the moon just before sunrise at a distance of […]