Plotspace

A blog for plots (among other things) about space

Fresh Milky Way

Land of the rising galaxy After last year’s successful (by my amateur standards) Milky Way sighting, I knew I had to go back in 2021 to capture more Milky Way shots and improve my technique. We returned to the Sunrise Visitor’s center at Mt. Rainier national park on a brisk September…

Light Mode Mountain

Out and About Last summer (summer of 2025), I had the good fortune to go to a friend’s destination wedding in northern Italy. Not wanting to waste a trans-atlantic trip,…

Solar Descent

Sunset? This may seem like its a post and picture not related to space, but the sun is, in fact, in space. And when it sets, its really just the…

Galaxy Photo Quest

Approach I’ve wanted to go stargazing for a while. Seeing a pure night sky, untouched by city lights or pollution, along with the Milky Way, has been on my to-do…

Seeking NEOWISE

Approach Of the many things to happen in 2020, the passing of Comet NEOWISE may have seemed small, or distant (to be fair, the comet was distant – about 100…

Mapping it out

Charting a course After moving cross country and starting a new job, I’ve finally settled down enough to make some more progress on my python simulations (thanks to having a…

Getting snake-y

One of the disadvantages of being out of college is your free MATLAB subscription goes away. As a result, I’m making the switch to Python. Besides consistently being off-by-one due…


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