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That Was Fun, Now Back to Work!

I’m sorry I haven’t posted here for a while, but you’ll understand when you see a few pictures from our cruise to Alaska: We left from Seattle, a city known for rain and clouds, but it turned out to be the warmest and sunniest day of our trip. Johns Hopkins Glacier in Glacier Bay.  The ship stayed here for a while as we waited for the fog to clear.  The captain even turned the boat around so people on both sides could see the glacier without leaving their rooms! A huge chunk of Margerie Glacier falls into the bay.  I […]


Making the Case for Dark Sky Photography

Long time readers of this blog know that I do a lot of my astro-photography from “Wa-chur-ed”, my home observatory, and that most of the images captured there use narrowband filters to defeat the light pollution from nearby Portland, Oregon.  But narrowband imaging limits you to just one type of target, emission nebulae.  To photograph anything else in the night sky you need to get away from the city lights – in my case, more than 100 miles away. Whenever the weather allows, I try to get out to dark skies during the New Moon period (the Moon being the […]