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Thanks for visiting these occasional notes about my photography. They explain some of the background related to the photographs, information about their location or circumstances and some of the technical details about capturing them. Feel free to leave comments or ask questions.
Elusive Mercury
September 20, 2020
Seeing or photographing the planet Mercury is a challenge, as it orbits so close to the Sun. But when the geometry is right, it's visible just before sunrise or just afte...
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The (almost) Unblemished Sun
June 23, 2020
The Sun is a very powerful nuclear energy generator. Fortunately it produces a very constant, copious flow of energy that pours from the Sun's surface as bright, white li...
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Hubble Watching
June 07, 2020
I spent most of my career working on the Hubble Space Telescope mission. Hubble is a satellite orbiting the Earth that gathers data to study the universe. I had the privi...
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Cosmic Serendipity
May 29, 2020
This is by far the best photograph of a meteor I've ever gotten. Not only is it a nice bright streak with a bit of green color at the top (from the copper in the meteoroi...
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Fields of View
April 25, 2020
When I worked on the Hubble Space Telescope mission, I made a lot of images from Hubble data that revealed amazing landscapes of space. You can see these images at Hubble...
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