astrophotography by bill w

with clouds forecast, i set my alarm for 4 AM and woke to see the sky clearing.  with some ambivalence i dragged myself out of bed, grabbed ...

The sun burst out of its minimum this weekend with a series of explosions on Saturday May 22nd, the likes of which haven't been seen in ...

Mars is all over the recent news with a fleet of space craft arriving:  -NASA's perseverance pulled off a crazy landing with a supersoni...

Here are a my conjunction images.   12/20/2020 note great red spot showing on Jupiter Great Conjunction 12/21/2020 day of closest approach Y...

 Taking a break from conjunction processing to post these larger images of the gas giants: Saturn 9-25-2020 03:49 UTC RGB Saturn 9-25-2020 0...

Here a few wide fields and my attempt at imaging the classic winter meteor shower, the geminids (night before peak which was clouded out).  ...

Uranus 12/1/2020 07:15 UTC IR(685)-RGB Planetary north up Image details: camera ZWO ASI 290MM ZWO RGB, Baader IR pass 685 nm filters celestr...