saturn

Hello everyone!! It's been a long time. I have continued to observe and image with my tremendously satisfying 12" Dob. I am still experimenting with Deep Sky astrophotography on a fun and casual basis. But with the Planets once again rising into view, it's time for me to get serious. What has...

After coming back from taking the kids to an afternoon Christmas service and running some last minute errands, we got back to my daughters a bit after sunset and I spotted our friends Jupiter and Saturn in the sky. So after unloading the kids from the van, I grabbed my D850 which still had the...

So on the 21st I went out and met Alisa at Abbot Church out in Eastern Colorado. There was about 10 other fun loving photographers there and it made for a fun time. I set up 2 camera's, 1 with a long lens and one with a wider lens to shoot the church with the Christmas star conjunction of...

This was my 2nd day of going after the Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter. This day was better then Saturday night as the wind was calm and not shaking the camera all over and causing the windchill to feel like it was in the teens. The 28 degrees I was shooting in felt rather warm tonight...