4 Planets + crescent moon
5:22 AM PDT - April 26, 2022
Partial Solar Eclipse
Oct. 23, 2014 - 3:42 pm PDT
Nova Delphinus 2013
This was discovered by Japanese amateur astronomer Koichi Itagaki on Aug. 14.
Imaged Aug. 16 with a TOA-150 and a Canon EOS 5D Mark II.
3 minute exposure
Venus transiting sun on 06/05/2012
Partial Solar Eclipse
May 20, 2012
M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
Leonid Meteors
12:45am to 3:45 am, Sunday Nov. 18, 2001
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Mars/Saturn conjunction
April 5, 2022
Interesting thing to consider: Saturn (upper left corner) was almost a billion miles further from
Earth than Mars (lower right corner). So the sunlight reflecting off Saturn left there and travelled
through space for about 90 minutes before joining up with light reflecting off Mars to continue
the journey toward the camera's CCD chip
Venus-Jupiter Conjunction June 30, 2015
Venus was about 48 million miles from Earth.
Jupiter + 4 moons were about 565 million miles from Earth,
or about 12 times farther from Earth than Venus.
Three planet conjunction with moon
June 15, 1991
8 Hour Circum-Polar Exposure
The Earth's spin axis is currently pointing very near the center of the "X" superimposed on the image.
The bright 120-degree streak at the bottom of the X is our "north" star, Polaris, used for navigation for centuries.
But like a gyroscope, precession changes where the axis points.
In about 13,000 years the spin axis will point towards the star Vega.
In about 26,000 years Polaris will once again be the pole star.
Texas Star Party, 1992
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