I have a few pictures of the Northern Lights from Thursday night, but I wasn't able to get out of the house to see them because my neigh...

 

A big solar storm sent the Northern Lights all the way to Virginia last night! They were breathtaking. No wonder people trek north simply to...

We had so many clouds! And I had trouble juggling  the camera and keeping the solar glasses on my face without my regular glasses and then I...

Today is solar eclipse day. We will have about 86% coverage here in my area. In another universe, I am in the area of totality, as I have ne...

 

That tiny little blip of light in these photos is the International Space Station. My camera is good enough that I should be able to get the...

 

For the last month, we've had smoke from fires from Canada, and now we're getting smoke from fires in the upper eastern part of the ...

I shot these photos on April 9, 2023, when I saw this interesting light low on the horizon as we were readying for bed. I thought at first i...

We had clouds passing overhead as Jupiter and the Moon made its "conjunction" in what looks like Jupiter colliding with the moon, ...

The green comet, formerly known as comet C/2022 E3 (ZTF), comes closest to Earth today, moving in to 26 million miles of this ol' round ...

  The interesting weather we've had most of the summer has given us amazing sunsets. The sunrises have been glorious, too, but we have t...

If you look closely in the last two pictures, you can see little dots that are moons of Jupiter. I don't have the equipment to get a bet...

This morning, my happiness came early when we had a shower and then sun - followed by a long (though not bright) rainbow. It is hard to have...

After a storm late in the evening, I glanced at the sky's reflection in the back door. It looked like the mountain was on fire.

 

Last night there was supposedly a great meteor shower, with a peak time at 1 a.m. The astronomy folks were calling it the Herculids, and it ...