Last week, North America was graced with a lunar eclipse during the early morning hours of Friday, March 14, 2025. Professional landscape and astrophotographer Dan Zafra traveled from the southwestern United States to the Alaskan wilderness to photograph the lunar eclipse. Photography website PetaPixel published the article Photographer’s Once-in-a-Lifetime Shots of the Lunar Eclipse and …
Last year was a busy year for both the northern and southern lights, due to a flurry of electromagnetic energy from the sun. According to reports I read, the northern lights were visible as far south as my former home state of Indiana. So that marked one of two celestial events that I missed by …
Wednesday was the Lunar New Year which rang in the Year of the Snake. So it seems fitting to look at the sky for today’s blog post. I give you NGC 2264, also known as the Christmas Tree Cluster. This image was released just before Christmas on December 19, 2023, by NASA. NGC 2264 is …
The sun. We take for granted that it appears in the east, chases away the darkness, and then traverses the sky before setting (sometimes in immense, colorful glory) in the western sky. As a photographer, most of my photographs use illumination from this original, all-natural light source. Yet, as the lunar eclipse in the spring …
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