A beautiful pass of the space station tonight! Sadly I lost tracking right at the peak of the pass, so I may have missed my big shot!

Attempted to photograph craters under different lighting conditions,

I’ve been waiting ages for this to line up, and the weather finally cooperated to get a picture of the space station and the moon

Beautiful view of the space station tonight!

A cool way to visualize the size of the Earth’s shadow during a lunar eclipse

A picture of one of the last Iridium flares ever!

My first attempt at photographing a lunar eclipse, and it’s our last one for a while!

Fun with long exposure photography!

Taking pictures of satellites over 22,000 miles away, and it turns out you can also see that stars have widely varying colors!

Trying for long exposure photography of geosynchronous satellites. It worked, but didn’t really come out how I was imagining. Live and learn!

My first Iridium flare! They’re going away soon, my first may also be my last!

It turns out that editing your pictures can make them look really nice, who knew?

My first foray into image editing with DarkTable, and it’s blowing my mind

A first try at night photography without the telescope. Learning the right settings to achieve the image that’s in your head is much harder than I thought it would be.

When the moon is just barely lit by the sun you can technically still see the rest of the moon very dimly. The reason you can see it is because of the light reflected off the Earth, a phenomena called Earthshine. I don’t quite have the right camera equipment to get this picture right, but I don’t think it was a bad attempt anyway!

I tried to find a globular cluster, but I simply don’t have the right telescope mount for that kid of photography.

Let’s find Buzz and Neil’s old hangout!

Tonight I snagged by far the best picture of the space station yet, it’s going to be really hard to top this one!

Tonight was a beautiful night to see Mars and Jupiter. Mars is somewhat past optimal viewing, but the planet wide dust storm has finally subsided so I finally got some surface details. If you look closely Olympus Mons is even there!

My first attempt at photographing Mars. I’m amazed that there’s actually a fair amount of detail, though it looks a bit flat.