2024 Eclipse Trip
15 photos
We drove to Texas for the Total Solar Eclipse and stopped at a bunch of national parks on the way there and back.
Explored
40 photos
Images that (somehow) made it into "In Explore" on Flickr
The Milky Way
55 photos, 1 video
These likely appear under wide-field shots as well, but they really deserve their own album.
Messier Objects
118 photos, 1 video
"Is it a comet? No? Drat." Repeat 109 times.
I remember being home sick once during high school and thinking, "I'm going to memorize where all the Messier objects are in the...
Cerritos College Observatory
51 photos, 3 videos
Images obtained using the 14" Celestron Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope at Cerritos College
Galaxies
92 photos, 1 video
Emission nebulae
57 photos
Images that contain regions of ionized hydrogen
Dark molecular clouds
57 photos
Images that contain examples of dust and dark molecular material that obscures the view of more distant stars
Reflection Nebula
20 photos
Dust... out in space
All these are is dust out in space
Solar images
14 photos, 1 video
Comets
25 photos, 1 video
Supernovae and SN remnants
22 photos, 1 video
Planets
113 photos, 8 videos
Open clusters
77 photos
Lunar photos
95 photos, 4 videos
Globular clusters
44 photos
Collections of tens to hundreds of thousands of stars that are leftover from when the Milky Way formed
Planetary nebulae
18 photos, 1 video
Remnants from the deaths of sun-like stars
Wide-field views
116 photos, 19 videos
Shots with a DSLR covering a more expansive region of the sky, or mosaics assembled from several panels shot with a CCD
Narrowband images
12 photos
Images created with only narrowband filters (no RGB)
Cygnus
12 photos
Orion
21 photos, 2 videos
Either the entire constellation, or part of it, or objects you find in it
Scorpius
14 photos
I have a lot of wide Milky Way shots of this part of the sky. I need to do some more close-up work.
Otters - Morro Bay - March 2017
14 photos
Terrestrial shots
102 photos, 9 videos
Does Earth appear in the picture anywhere? I'll include it here.
Evolving photography
75 photos
Collect photons. Collect more photons on the same object, and reprocess. Buy new software. Reprocess. Am I getting better at this?
Death Valley, March 2015
9 photos, 1 video
These were shot from Mesquite Springs Campground while spending a few nights there with members of the Cerritos College Astronomy Club.
Lecture pics - nebulae
17 photos
2005 YU55
33 photos
Photos taken from 118.097878 W 33.884935 N of the near Earth asteroid 2005 YU55 on the evening of 2011 Nov 8 PST
Joshua Tree, 2011 Sep 30 and Oct 1
4 photos
Shot from Joshua Tree National Park; photos from Oct 1 have some field rotation present as the scope was not polar-aligned again the second night
Cerritos College, 2011-10-12
4 photos
Astrophotos shot during the Cerritos College Astronomy Club observing session on 2011 Oct 12
A Night on Bald Mountain, part 1
8 photos
I found a great observation site in the Sierra Nevada east of Fresno. I was even more psyched once I learned the name, as it allows me to name photosets after my favorite piece of classical...
Astrophotos from Botswana
8 photos
I took advantage of the blackout skies from Botswana (especially on the pans) to record some shots only possible from the southern hemisphere. I generally used an ISO of 3200, so there may be a...
Reprocessed astrophotos (shot pre 13 Jun 2011)
5 photos
All photos in this set have been properly calibrated with dark and flat frames. Most color adjustments were done in Deep Sky Stacker 3.3.2. Additionally, relative brightness settings for FITS files...
Eastern Sierras Trip, April 2011
5 photos
Views from near Lone Pine and Darwin, CA
Saturn and Titan, 2011-04-01
3 photos
These shots are making me think I need a better monitor. I'm having a lot of trouble getting the right lighting level because, as I stand up in front of my monitor, the brightness level of these...
Sunrise on the moon, 2011-04-12
5 photos
A series of images to show the sun rising over Pitatus and Gauricus craters on the moon; the moon was at first quarter (56% phase); each photo is the product of reducing a 2700 frame AVI (30 frames/s...
2011-03-04
8 photos
Full night of observing; lots of galaxies. I figured how to make PHD guiding follow the guide star better, with positive results.
2011-02-27
5 photos
After seeing that the tracking wasn't keeping up with the drift in the scope (I think I kicked the tripod again after polar aligning -- doh!), I changed some parameters in PHD to make it a bit more...
2011-02-06
4 photos
If you are looking at each set in chronological order, you are seeing how I am progressing with astrophotography and its associated processing. The photos were all shot with PHD guiding enabled and...
2011-02-04
2 photos
Not the most productive night; after having the scope polar aligned and getting guiding set, the battery died on me. A bit of a recharge allowed me to get the following.
2011-01-21 astrophotos
3 photos
I was trying some new equipment for guiding shots (by hand) so that I could do longer exposures. Here are the first results.
2011-01-09 tests
3 photos
Objects were shot with a 9.25" Celestron Edge HD using an f/6.3 focal reducer. Images were taken with an Atik 314L+; spectra obtained using a Shelyak diffraction grating.
Mt. Pinos, 2009-06-20
2 photos
Jupiter, Ganymede and Europa - 2010-10-31
7 photos
The best photographs from a set that I had done of Jupiter and two of its moons.
astro 2010-10-28
4 photos
Photos and spectra from 2008-10-28
honeymoon pics
3 photos
pics taken on california's central coast (montana de oro state park, cambria, monterey, and along the pacific coast highway) during julia and my honeymoon (13-18 oct 2008)