The Perseid meteor shower will peak on the nights of August 11, 12, 13 during 2020. A Perseid meteor over Washington, DC. Image Credit:...

SpaceX was finally able to hop their Starship prototype SN5 (serial number 5) yesterday, August 4th to 150 meters. Check out the video...

The Celestron C90 gives you nice optics for the price in a small and very portable package, but additional accessories are needed in...

On the evening of July 31st, 2020 I tried imaging in IR for the first time. I used an ASI290MM camera with a Televue 2.5x Powermate along...

Below is a 16 image loop of Jupiter taken early on July 19, 2020, with my Celestron 8" EdgeHD telescope on a Nexstar Evolution mount. I...

October 6, 2018 I only made one attempt at imaging Mars during 2018. The two images below are from the same data set but with different...

The following are a selection of images I've taken from most recent to oldest for the years 2018 and 2019. All planetary images are taken...

I put together a video with a collection of panoramic images taken by the Mars Curiosity Rover between the time it landed on Mars in 2012...

I decided to move all my imagery for each year for each planet into a single blog post for that year. Here are the Jupiter images from...

I edited the recently released 10-year solar animation released by NASA SDO. The original hour-long animation (each day lasts one second)...

Yes, you can do planetary imaging with a small telescope. On Friday, June 26, 2020, I decided to challenge myself and see what I could do...

I recently purchased the new Baader Flip Mirror II diagonal. So far, I love using this diagonal. It makes my planetary photography much...

I've used an Explore Scientific Twilight I mount as my grab and go telescope mount for a couple of years now and love using the mount....

While visiting my wife’s parents I decided to do a little astrophotography with my iPhone XR and Televue Ranger refractor. By chance, I...

On the evening of July 27, 2019 I was able to capture a shadow transit on Jupiter, which is shown in the animated gif above. One of...

My first attempt at producing an animation of Jupiter.

Satellite images of the July 2019 total solar eclipse.

A fairly inexpensive 6" telescope can produce nice views of the planets. Add a basic DSLR camera and you can produce detailed imagery.

Earth isn't the only place in the solar system where solar eclipses occur. They are quite common on Jupiter, and Mars has them as well....

#supermoon Each of the first three months of 2019 will see a so-called "super moon," with the full moon being larger than average in...