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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Golden:
Mt. Evans:
Dillon:
Deadhorse Point S.P., UT:
