astrophotography by bill w

Stacked my comet images to see if i could pull out the anti-tail ...no luck :( though you can see a bit more of the tail, especially to the ...

comet C2023 A3 Tsuchinshan–ATLAS 10/12/2024 7:24 PM Local Went out to anza saturday to catch the comet.  as the beautiful pink of sunset fad...

Here’s a partially eclipsed supermoon rising on the evening of 9/17/24.  I happen to have 8 PM dinner reservations at beachcombers , so I he...

Last weekend (Sept 1st 2024) there was a large coronal mass ejection / flare off of the rim of the sun, followed by post flare loops that l...

  Equuleus (Latin for little horse) is a faint constellation near pegasus (hence the horse theme) rising in the east these nights.   Const...

 The sun was littered with sunspots this weekend leading some to claim we've reached the maximum of Solar Cycle 25 .   Sun full disk 8/9...

during totality, there is a twilight horizon for 360 degrees.  it's not pitch black, but approximates the darkness an hour after sunset....