This is an image I took June 24th, 2019 at a dark site about an hour from my house called Picket Post Trailhead. It is about 5 miles from Superior, AZ. The drive is not bad from anywhere in the Phoenix East Valley, but it dramatically improves contrast in astrophotography by getting away from the Phoenix light dome a...
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...
