As we continue through all the classics in the constellation Orion, here is the Running Man nebula, a reflection nebula with a ghost-like figure running through it. Can you see it?
Happy New Year! Here are some of my favorite photos from 2021:
Here is an image of the iconic Horsehead nebula in the constellation Orion. When I first got interested in astronomy over 60 years ago, capturing an image of the Horsehead was a dream, or actually more like a pipe dream, requiring thousands of dollars in equipment and lots of patience. Today, largely due to the advancement of digital CCD and CMOS cameras, I could capture this image with basic equipment that cost a few hundred dollars. However, the Horsehead is still an incredibly difficult object to see visually, especially with today’s light pollution.
As the sun sets on 2021…how about a few more sunset photos..
Comet Leonard is a binocular object low in the south-southwest just after sunset these days. I managed to get a not very good photo of it as it passed in between tree limbs obscuring my view.
As a radical, illegitimate Supreme Court begins to unravel Americans’ most fundamental rights; as a fascist party whose attempted coup recently failed works to put in place the processes to guarantee one-party rule; as a corrupted judicial system with its brazen hypocrisy openly exposes itself as the purely political force…
