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Sky & Telescope Parent Company Bankrupt
F&W media, the parent company that owns Sky & Telescope, filed for bankruptcy last week. With art like that shown above, it’s sad to say, I won’t miss them. I mean, what is this mess supposed...
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First Picture of a Black Hole
The first picture ever taken of a black hole can be seen above. It’s the gigantic one at the center of galaxy M87, which is about 54 million light years away. The image is made from, wait for it, 5...
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Good Info on the Event Horizon Scope
They had so much data (5 Petabytes) they had to fly the hard disks back on planes! More info on the black hole and image here. . . . . . FollowShare
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Double Space-X Landing
From last year, but nonetheless incredible! Imagine landing on the Moon 50 years ago with the equivalent of an AM transistor radio technology. . . . . . FollowShare
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The Rise of Skywalker
The end is near… Who who who, ha ha ha! . . . . . . . FollowShare
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New Property of Light Discovered!
This is really interesting. Light has “self torque” or angular momentum. “The experiments involved firing two lasers at a cloud of argon gas. Doing so forced the beams to overlap, and they joined and...
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Burning Man From Space
This is the Burning Man festival as seen from space from r/space FollowShare
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Amazing Partial Lunar Eclipse Pic
Today’s APOD by Christian Fattinnanzi. Outstanding! . . . . . FollowShare
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The Expanse is Back
This should be interesting. It looks like there’s going to be one episode of season 4 airing in December 2019. I guess the rest next spring? All the new ones will be on Amazon. And it seems they have...
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Killer Asteroid 2019 OK Just Misses!
Asteroid 2019 OK, estimated to have a size of about 187 to 427 feet and traveling at a fast 54,000 mph, passed just 1/5 of the distance to the Moon, and “came out of nowhere“. It wasn’t that these...
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The Gamma Persei Area
This is a shot of an area of sky centered on Gamma Persei. Click on the image or link to see a larger version with more information. It was taken with a simple 50mm lens on a tracking mount....
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Jupiter Rotates by Hubble
Be sure to watch it full screen in high definition. . . . . . FollowShare
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Dark Nebulae in Ophiuchus
Here’s a first-starlight pic of a bunch of dark nebulae in Ophiuchus taken with my new Sigma Art 105mm f/1.4 lens. I’m pretty happy with it. You may notice that there are no stars in the picture....
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Sigma Art 105mm F1.4 Sample Starfield Image
Check out the corners at 100% and decide if you can live with them at f/1.4… You really won’t be able to check them out at the size of this small image on this page. You have to download the...
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Nikon Z6 Single 30s Exposure
This is a single 30-second exposure of the Milky Way taken with the Nikon Z6 and Sigma Art 105mm f/1.4 at ISO 200. Click on the image or link above to see more technical info with links to the...
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Sigma Art 105mm & Nikon Z6 Second Light
The North America Nebula, Deneb, Sadr, the Butterfly Nebula, and the Northern Coalsack, made an interesting field for second light for the little beast, my name for the Sigma Art f/1.4 lens on the...
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7 Years of Light Pollution Growth
The two big holes are basically the Pine Barrens, with my two observing sites marked with a red X. Curiously, I have not seen much of a change in my Sky Quality Meter readings over that time. I’m...
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Rising Milky Way, Polar Projection
I re-worked a panorama that I had shot of the summer Milky Way rising in the east from Cherry Springs using polar projection. Click on the image or link to see a larger version with more information....
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