astrophotography by bill w

took another crack and venus and mercury.  unfortunately seeing was not great... Venus 4/16/23 02:43 UTC IR pass 850nm Mercury 4/16/23 02:33...

dragged the kids out to the front yard to see a falcon launch with potential for a sunlit plume against the night sky. having been dragged o...

 decided to try my astrophotography skills on a noisy pair in a tree across the street: Great Horned Owl Note the big black eyes indicating ...

  there was a late night falcon 9 launch on 6/22 it being a weekday in the midst of a loooong run of of clouds, i chose to give at quick t...

 After imaging the mars occultation (which occurred at low altitude), I waited a few hours for mars to reach maximum elevation and increased...

  On December 7th, both mars and the moon were in opposition--directly opposite the earth.  for the moon that means a full moon.  for mars ...

 Mars is here. The seeing wasn't great this session, so i imaged without a barlow.  I wanted to test out an infrared filter with a color...