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Astrophotography

Astrophotography - the moon and the stars, lunar eclipses, the milky way, blood moons and more.

A beautiful view of the milky way from our campsite at Turquoise Lake, Leadville Colorado, adjusted for portrait view.

Supermoon tonight. I don't have a super long lens anymore - this is a heavy crop, best I can do with a 200mm.

Canon 5DMk4, Canon 70-200 f/2.8 L II, ISO 100, f/8.0, 200mm.

The milky way just manages to peek through the clouds, over Mary's Lake near Estes Park, Colorado.

Another long exposure from the shore of Mary's Lake a few miles near Estes Park, looking east towards Denver.

Clouds lit from distant Boulder and Denver light the sky at midnight. From the shore of Mary's Lake a few miles near Estes Park, looking east towards Denver.

Another beautiful view of the milky way from our campsite at Turquoise Lake, Leadville Colorado.

A beautiful view of the milky way from our campsite at Turquoise Lake, Leadville Colorado.

My first attempt at shooting the Aurora Borealis, which turned out to not quite extend down to Denver tonight, turned into my first attempt at merging 103 stacked images into star trails. The shot is cropped to remove the neighbor's house behind mine.

Another shot of the Milky Way and the Perseid meteor shower, from Ward, Colorado.

The Milky Way during the 2015 Perseid meteor shower.

The Milky Way over Brainard Lake, on August 13th, during the Perseid meteor shower. No meteorites show in the image, but the reflection of the stars on the water is striking. The Andromeda galaxy makes an appearance, in the middle of the right half of the

A lone meteorite streaks through the sky near the Milky Way, at the Brainard Lake State Recreation Area near Ward, Colorado.

On my way to shoot the Perseid meteor shower I stopped and snapped this great view of the milky way.

25 second exposure of the Milky Way from Turqouise Lake, Leadville Colorado.

A collage of 14 images from the spring 2015 lunar eclipse, showing the different phases of the moon.

Lunar Eclipse ad blood moon, April 4 2015 from Denver, Colorado.

Lunar Eclipse ad blood moon, April 4 2015 from Denver, Colorado.

The craters on the moon pronounced much more when side-lit during the crescent phase.

The moons scars are showing on a clear night.

Lunar eclipse and blood moon, 4/15/2014. Shot as separate frames with a 100mm Canon f/2.8 and assembled in Photoshop.

The big dipper shines near Bailey, Colorado on the 4th of July, 2014.

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