Category: Photos
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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 Earth rotating away from it as the Earth orbits around the sun. So clearly, this post is also about space, and the sanctity of this…
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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 night. With clear weather,…
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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 list for years. We decided to make the trip now, before summer ends and while skies are still clear. The location for our stargazing journey…
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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 million kilometers, or 100 gigameters, away from Earth). This once in a 6700 year event was over before I knew it, but luckily I was…
Roshan Radhakrishnan 