pinwheel galaxy

Here is the Pinwheel Galaxy from this last week out in Joshua Tree National Park. It's not perfect, but it's the best I can get it. :) It felt good capturing it since I still have a totally manual tracker with no GoTo system. At 600mm to be able to pick out the Pinwheel Galaxy by eye and then...

I captured this a week ago out in Death Valley. I had a bit of a moon to deal with, but not much. My biggest issue was the wind. I parked my Jeep in such a way to use it as a wind break to try and limit the amount of wind hitting it, but the wind would gust into the 20 to 30mph range. So it...

Here is an image of The Pinwheel Galaxy (M101), a dramatic face-on spiral galaxy located at an approximate distance of 21 million light years from us, that never sets when observed from up here at 40 degrees North Latitude, and is well positioned for many observers in the Northern Hemisphere...