astrophotography by bill w

The conjunction of venus and mars on ~7/12/21 made it to many astronomy calendars, including mine.  Planetary conjunctions are typically sce...

i decided to image the last supermoon of this year as it rose from the beach at corona del mar: Moon rise 6/24/21 Corona Del Mar you'll ...

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...