October 2023 Archives

Third Quarter and Waning Crescent

Third Quarter The left of the moon appears illuminated and visible,while the left half appears dark. Waning Crescent A small sliver of the illuminated side […]

Full Moon

Full Moon The entire illuminated side of the moon is visible from Earth, appearing as a complete circle. Waning Gibbous A large portion of the […]

Sarah’s Galaxy

Most often called the Hamburger galaxy due to the massive lane of outer dust that appears to bisect the galaxy from our view on Earth, […]

I find it just so inspiring.

The sharing platforms really compress the images that we all post, so I wanted to give an example of a tight crop of one of […]

Andromeda

Something special to share with you today. This is more than 100 hours of data collected in all filters with my largest telescope at 4,000mm […]

What do you mean “uninteresting”!?

What do you mean “uninteresting”!? This is M65, a spiral galaxy roughly 35 million lightyears from Earth which I haven’t seen frequently imaged in detail. […]

An extraordinary photo of the sun

This is a photo taken by our staff, but in the photo it looks like the moon is entering the trunk of the car. This […]

Moon

First Quarter The right halt of the moon appears illuminated and visible, while the left half appears dark. Waxing Gibbous A large portion of the […]

Neptune

Neptune,positioned as the eighth and most distant planet from the Sun in our solar system,is made up mostly of hydrogen and helium. It is also […]

Uranus

It has hydrogen, helium ammonia and methance. What makes Uranus unique is its sideways spin,similar to rolling a ball along the ground but with its […]