M13, the globular cluster in Hercules

There’s a barely discernible distant spiral galaxy, NGC 6207, a little to the left and down.

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Thank you, Caltrans 2023-06-27
Forgot to post this when it happened, a few months ago… Tuesday, when the “bomb cyclone” hit the Bay Area. We agreed to pick up my sister-in-law Diane at SFO on her return from China. Bad driving conditions. Worn windshield wipers, intermittent rain and gusty wind, glaring headlights, almost invisible lane markers. Like driving through […]
Another test post to mastodon 2023-03-11
The number is approximate, of course. (From a scenic overlook on La Palma)
Congratulations to “Everything Everywhere All at Once” 2023-03-08
Richly deserved. I was motivated to add it to my DVD collection…
Witch Head Nebula, IC2118 2023-01-27
I think most good astrophotographers plan their telescope runs in advance. I am not like that — I look at the objects that happen to be visible and take pictures to see what I get. I didn’t know that IC2118 was known as the Witch Head Nebula. Now I know that it is a famously […]