Comet A6 Lemmon, photographed this morning, Oct 2. Brightening steadily as it approaches perigee later this month. #astronomy #astrophotography

Corona Australis Molecular Cloud

Last of the data I shot in Atacama. A dark nebula illuminated by a reflection nebulae fanning out from Epsilon Coronae Australis eastward along the border w/ Sagittarius.

Two-panel mosaic, 300mm focal length, integration six hours.

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Rho Ophiuci Cloud Complex photographed under the clear, dark skies of the Atacama Desert in Chile.

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Fox News on tariff chaos: 🙈🙉🙊

Last night’s solar eclipse, nearing totality

Looks like most areas of Virginia dealing with power outages from high winds. Good reminder that our investor-owned utilities are incentivized to built costly infrastructure — not to focus on grid maintenance and preventative work like tree trimming.

guess we can safely say these didn’t work

Mars rising over the Moon, 1/13/25

2024 was such an insane year of cosmic and political events it made me really think the ancients were onto something

Spent last night photographing planets in the order they appear in the night sky: Saturn, Uranus, Jupiter, Mars. (Alas Venus, though beautiful and bright this time of year is hidden behind trees in my yard) #astrophotography #astronomy

Jupiter and the Galilean moons tonight