At least -20 degrees cool! Out of over a thousand images taken early this morning, I captured dozens of meteors, but no monster big ones. Attached are two cropped images and they have the constellation Gemini in the image too. Meteors are running right to left and will trace back to the two twin "head" stars of Gemini (Castor and Pollux). Image #2 points right at "The Twins" of Gemini! And remember, all this from pieces of dirt the size of a grain of rice! Images by: Rick Stankiewicz December 14, 2017
At least -20 degrees cool! Out of over a thousand images taken early this morning, I captured dozens of meteors, but no monster big ones. Attached are two cropped images and they have the constellation Gemini in the image too. Meteors are running right to left and will trace back to the two twin "head" stars of Gemini (Castor and Pollux). Image #2 points right at "The Twins" of Gemini! And remember, all this from pieces of dirt the size of a grain of rice! Images by: Rick Stankiewicz December 14, 2017
I hope you have all been enjoying the show in the western sky after sunset these past few days. Venus and the Moon have been putting on quite the display. Light haze is not real noticeable to your eye, but stands out with longer camera exposures. These simple image captures were just using a camera on a tripod and settings between: ISO 500 to 800, 33 to 70mm, f/4.5, 0.3 to 1 sec. Date: Tuesday, July 17, 2018 Rick Stankiewicz
2020-August 12 - P. Chee - Perseid-2020-Aug-13 From my backyard in Town Ward, Peterborough. Taken by : Phillip Chee
2020-August 13 - R. Stankiewicz - The Perseids of 2020 The attached images are my meager offerings to the Perseid captures of 2020. For the hours spent "looking up" there sure were not a lot of "shooting stars" to be had (when I was out at least). Note the Summer Triangle in all the images, in the lower portions of the frame. Taken by: Rick Stankiewicz
2020-September 17 - M. McCarthy - ISS Flyover Open and adjust the levels in your favourite image software to reveal more of the panels, these are 2 of 175 frames I got between clouds tonight. It moves across the sky fast and when its dodging and dancing between clouds its speed is evident. This was at f/11 on a C14 with a Mallincam Skyraider DS10CTEC Taken by : Mike McCarthy
Airplane Meets Jupiter John Crossen BHO
Asteroid Ceres in Cetus Rick Stankiewicz 11.11.07
Big Dipper and ISS Rick Stankiewicz 07.29.08
Constellation Orion
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ISS chases ATV (Jules Vern)_1 Rick Stankiewicz 09.21.08
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ISS chases ATV (Jules Vern)_2 Rick Stankiewicz 09.21.08
ISS Rick Stankiewicz 07.25.08 Over Cedar Knoll Observatory Dome
ISS_1 Rick Stankiewicz Sept.09.08
ISS_2 Rick Stankiewicz Sept.09.08
ISS_3 Rick Stankiewicz Sept.09.08
Light Pillars Rick Stankiewicz Dec.27.00
Moon Pines Rick Stankiewicz 2003
Moonrise Rick Stankiewicz 2005
Moonrise Silhouettes Rick Stankiewicz Aug.03
Nova Scorpii 2007 Rick Stankiewicz Feb.21.07
Orion During Lunar Eclipse Stock lens at 55mm Unguided 30 seconds at ISO1600 f5.6 1 Dec 21.2010 Mark Coady
Orion-Saturn-4 Leonids Rick Stankiewicz Nov.18.01
Star Trails Around Polaris Rick Stankiewicz
Star Trails Rick Stankiewicz
Tree of Light Horizontal Peter McMahon
I managed to get pictures of Vesta and Ceres on four nights. I have marked the star HD117832 with a red arrow to provide a reference point. The width of the field is about 1degree-40minutes. The movement is very obvious from one night to the next and also how much faster Vesta moves compared to Ceres. When the picture was taken after midnight I used the date from the day before to be consistent. The pictures were taken with a Canon SX30 at 35x optical zoom, 15secs at f/5.8 and ISO 1600 on the Ioptron Cube Pro mount. Full Moon was on the 12th. so the sky was quite bright. A very interesting little project. Learned a lot. This picture and the following 3 pictures were taken July 4, 5, 7, 10, 2014 July 4, 2014 Sean.
July 5, 2014 Sean.
July 7, 2014 Sean.
July 10, 2014 Sean.
Grasslands Peter McMahon
Night Sky National Park Peter McMahon