Snowy Flatirons
A highlight of my winter drive into work is the sight of the Flatirons plastered in fresh snow after a storm has passed through. It’s not a sight that usually lasts very long; the Flatirons are steep and a day … Continue reading
Category Archives: astrophotography
Night sky at Arches National Park, Utah
Stitch of 6 frames taken with the Canon 24mm tilt-shift lens at f/3.5 (ISO 6400). … Continue reading
Boulder and the Rockies
Made a detour up Flagstaff mountain en route to the office this evening, stopping as usual at the Lost Gulch Overlook. It’s a popular spot, and a few sunset watchers were still around. It was also windy (though not cold) … Continue reading
Pre-dawn planets
For the next week or so you can catch five planets: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars and Jupiter, together in the sky before dawn. They’re not very close together, but today I tried a time lapse of Venus and Mercury rising … Continue reading
Lunar eclipse over the Front Range
Time for another lunar eclipse this morning. A combination of it still being winter in the high mountains, and laziness, meant that unlike last time I stayed close to home. There was a small gathering of onlookers and photographers at … Continue reading
Moonrise, Longs Peak
An attempt to catch the first light of the almost-full rising moon on the face of Longs Peak, in Rocky Mountain National Park. A long stack of the stars was disappointing, instead this is 2.5 minutes processed with StarStaX’s “comet” … Continue reading
Testing the startracker
After shooting the comet last night, I did a quick test of the iOptron startracker by pointing at Orion and taking both tracked and untracked frames at 70mm focal length. The exposure was 30s at f/4, ISO 3200. As was … Continue reading
Comet Lovejoy
First clear day this week, so I drove part-way up Flagstaff Mountain to see if the comet was visible. That close to Boulder the sky is still not all that dark, but a quick frame at 70mm in the general … Continue reading