There are so many factors that go into solar astrophotography. It is understandable that very, very few people try to do it. Wind, heat, humidity, seeing conditions, and solar activity are just the start. Knowing how to capture the images is another factor. By which type of recording device, and finally how to process them. There are many amateur astrophotographers out here … [Read more...]

On the way back from a vacation in Florida I managed to view the devestation of the string of toronados that destroyed hundreds of buildings, injured scores of people, and killed 21 on April 18. Just off of I-95 in central North Carolina is the town of Dunn. Once the home for over a hundred residents of the Cedar Creek Mobile Home Park. Now, it's just a wasteland of several … [Read more...]

I was out the other day shooting some solar video that I had totally forgot about till today. A nice rainy day seemed to be perfect to spend some seroius time working on an image out of that video. Here you go! A combination of 380 video frames stacked in Registax, color added in Photoshop. The sun is certainly picking up in action this year. … [Read more...]

From NASA: April 12 was already a huge day in space history twenty years before the launch of the first shuttle mission. On that day in 1961, Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin became the first human in space, making a 108-minute orbital flight in his Vostok 1 spacecraft. Mercury astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American in space less than a month later. Scientific … [Read more...]

A turbulent atmosphere left me no choice except to shoot some prominences on todays sun. Enjoy your closest star! … [Read more...]