- Andromeda 20140826
First night using the Astrotracer functionality of the Pentax O-GPS1. 11 exposures totalling 319 seconds on a fixed tripod. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker. - Butterfly on Joe Pye Weed
- Chopped Timber
High Mountain, Wayne, New Jersey - Corona, prominences, and Regulus
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA With this version of my second-longest exposure, I've tried to balance the structure in the corona with good detail in the large prominence. - Delphinus 20140826
First night using the Astrotracer functionality of the Pentax O-GPS1. 4x120 seconds on a fixed tripod. Stacked with DeepSkyStacker. - Detail of solar prominence
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Diamond Ring
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Doe
High Mountain, Wayne, New Jersey - Dog Diving
- Eclipse composite
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Extreme corona
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA This is from my longest single exposure. I pushed this one as far as I could, to the point of excessive noise and artifacts, to reveal the extended coronal structure and earthshine on the moon. - Hen-of-the-woods
Mountain View Trail, Blue Knob State Park, Pennsylvania - ISS transiting the sun
Composite of 4 exposures showing a solar transit of the International Space Station. Photographed from Gallitzin State Forest, Pennsylvania, USA at 2015-08-29 14:12:42 UT. The duration of the transit was 0.8 seconds. The distance to the ISS was approximately 616 km and its angular size was about 45 arcsec. Planning for the transit was done using CalSky.com. Pentax K-5 II, Pentax DA* 300mm f/4, Tamron 1.4x teleconverter, ND 1000x filter. Exposures were 1/6000 second with the lens set to f/8 (for an f/11 effective aperture with the teleconverter). - Last Sliver
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Manhattan from High Mountain
Wayne, New Jersey - Mountain View Trail
Blue Knob State Park, Pennsylvania - Munch, Munch
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA Partial phase, just before the sunspots get eaten. - Orange fungus
Mountain View Trail, Blue Knob State Park, Pennsylvania - Passing Cloud
August 2017 total solar eclipse Lake Keowee, South Carolina, USA - Plants growing on rock
Mountain View Trail, Blue Knob State Park, Pennsylvania