Category Archives: astronomy

Lunar Eclipse September 2015

I’ve only once photographed a lunar eclipse before but this time I stayed up half the night from penumbral encroachment until full red eclipse. … more

Pluto atmosphere

Amazing panorama back from New Horizons here. I had to apply the ‘polar coordinates’ tool in Photoshop to see what the atmospheric layers looks … more

Brill Hill Windmill

All the newspapers said that the Aurora Borealis would be visible tonight because the sun had recently spewed out a coronal mass ejection. Armed … more

Mimas AKA the Death Star in 3D

This is an anaglyphic view of Mimas made from the Cassini Space Probe’s Narrow Angle Camera on it’s multispectral imaging pass of the moon … more

Dark Pit on Arsia Mons

This pit on a volcano on Mars had been described as bottomless because no one has spotted any details in the shadow. Having worked … more

Space Shuttle Launch Movie

I was fascinated by the fact that they now put six cameras on the booster rockets to spot any potential damage to the shuttle … more

Iridium Flare

05 May 2009 04:01:26 • -9 • 58° 271° (W ) • 2.2 km (E) • -9 • Iridium 94 I set my alarm … more