This is a test shot of the sun with a new solar filter I just created for my 300mm camera lens.  I did this to test the lens and filter co...

Last evening I took a few 2 second shots of bright Venus near the Pleiades star cluster.  Then I spent a few hours on the computer creating ...

Click on the Images for a Large View I always enjoy seeing the lovely crescent moon in the evening sky, especially when it joins with some ...

Click on the Image for a Larger View I just had to get out one more time to see and image them this evening.  This time from my home.  Ther...

Click on the Image for a Larger View It's been almost 5 months since my last post on this PhotoBlog.  Five days after that last post, Oc...

With a nip in the Autumn air, its the season for Halloween, so I have uploaded some things that go "bump" in the night.  Otherwise...

Click HERE to see it at its highest resolution Astronomers have given the dark areas in the above image two familiar names:  "Dark Ho...

Click on the image for a larger view The image above is of Comet Garradd as it went by the globular cluster M71 in the constellation Sagitta...

Click on the Image for a large view On August 24, the Palomar Observatory discovered a supernova in M101, the Pinwheel Galaxy.  The supernov...

Click on the Image for a Larger View Commonly known as the "Needle Galaxy" because of its narrow edge-on appearance, this spiral g...

Click on Image for a Larger View This is our home galaxy, which we call the Milky Way.  The 10mm lens I used gives  a 107-degree diagonal v...

Click on the Image for a Larger View Star trails are easy to take with your digital camera, but before I tell you how I created the...

Click on Image for Larger View This is one of the most colorful regions in the Milky Way.  Visually, even with the largest telescope, you w...

  Last evening I set up my Canon XTi with a new 10-22mm f/3.5 lens to capture the International Space Station as it crossed almost direct...

Click on the Images for Larger View At the upper left of this image is the spiral galaxy M108 and at the lower right is the planetary nebula...

Click on image for a larger view The word "conjunction" may bring back memories of english class, but it's a totally differen...

Click on the image for a larger view What galaxy photo do you think has been seen by more people than any other?  Your first thought might ...

Click on image for larger view I hope you took a peek at a rare event going on over our heads on December 21.  A Lunar Eclipse is not rare, ...

Click on image for a larger view The Bubble Nebula, lower left, and the Star Cluster M 52, at upper right, create a beautiful contrasting d...

Click on the image for a larger view My previous post was of a spiral galaxy (NGC 891) seen edge on.  Here is a spiral galaxy seen face on....