Images of the Milky Way, comets, stars, planets and astronomical wonders.
![8/19/23: What are those flashing lights in the sky? [v.1]](https://catchingtime.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/3_StarsALIGNED-full_1024x-1048x800.jpg)
"I saw some flashing lights in a dark night sky, and they appeared to not move; what are they?" I frequent several online sources of astronomy information where questions…
Meteors–often called ‘shooting stars’–can be quite a sight to see and photograph, especially when one is large enough to light up the entire night sky. Just after midnight on July…
A 'persistent train' is a trail of ionized gases left behind some meteors when they heat up enough in the atmosphere to begin disintegrating. These trails can persist in the…
After 11 days on the road (including 5 days at the Telluride Blues & Brews Festival), we had one more day of clear skies so decided to stop for one…
On the winter solstice, I went out to capture the Saturn-Jupiter 2020 Great Conjunction over Denver, over St. Elizabeth of Hungary Church. Quite a few people out wandering around the…
Some things in the world just deserve a drop-everything, no-holds-barred trip, and the opportunity to see the Utah Monolith at night was certainly no exception. Even on Thanksgiving. I made…
Magnitude +2.4 Comet NEOWISE (C/2020 F3) continues to provide amazing opportunities for photographers, and the dynamic terrain around Crested Butte, Colorado allowed me to capture one image I was not…
The Shot: 'Milky Way over Corkscrew Gulch, Colorado'. I love the San Juans, and Day 4 of this trip gave me a whole new appreciation of the Red Mountain Pass…
In my quest to optimally process a sequence of images of Zodiacal Light and the Gegenschein in order to try and reveal the interplanetary dust in between, this time I…
