Sunday, May 5, 2024
I've been working on my Jupiter imaging, this is the best I've come up with so far. The animation is only 3 frames total, 10 minutes apart. So the rotation shows just how much Jupiter rotates in only 20 minutes! Trying to image a planet is like hand to hand combat with the atmosphere.  Think about heat waves rising from...
  Back on May 1st, I photographed The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) and the interacting companion known as NGC 5195. This light originated about 25 million years ago only to land on my camera that night. It's almost incomprehensible how far away it is. In our night sky from the Phoenix East Valley, this is right below the last star on the...

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