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Photo Gallery
All of the following photographs were taken through our telescopes with our cameras. Photography reveals far more color and detail than one sees in the telescope eyepiece.
August 2024
The Dumbell Nebula
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October 25 2023
The Heart Nebula
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June 30 2022
Milky Way Star Circle
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June 30 2022
Albireo
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March 30 2022
Orion and Redrock Canyon State Park
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September 15 2021
Star circles looking East from our home
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July 12 2021
View of the Geysers Geothermal Site from Lake Sonoma
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June 8 2021
Nightscape - The World at Night (TWAN)
Photo taken by Linda Sinkay, looking south from our Freestone home location.
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July 12 2020 Comet
Comet NEOWISE - C/2020 F3
Visible with the naked eye and modest binoculars
June 28 2020 Moon
Photographed from our driveway in Freestone. Taken with a Raspberry Pi 4B and HQ Camera mounted at prime focus on an Orion 12" Newtonian Reflector.
August 21 2017 Solar Eclipse
October 14 Annular Solar Eclipse
April 8 2024 Total Solar Eclipse - Burnet Texas
October 11 2019 Transit of Mercury
Photographed from our deck in Freestone. Taken with a Canon T2i mounted at prime focus on an Orion 10" Newtonian Reflector. The Reflector is on a Celestron CGEM Equatorial Mount.
September 18 2017 alignment of Venus, the star Regulus, the Moon, Mars, and Mercury
The Double Cluster
Two beautiful "open clusters" of stars
The Andromeda Galaxy
Very bright in the telescope
The Triangulum Galaxy
Barely visible in the telescope - located below Andromeda
Clouds and Moon at Sunset
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Our tiny Moon and dramatic Clouds
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The Rosette Nebula
Not visible in the telescope - a photographic target only
Located above Orion's left shoulder
Venus and Mercury over Bodega Bay
The Moon - featuring the Clavius Crater
Clavius is the larger crater with several smaller internal craters increasing in size - to the left of center and just above the middle.
The Orion Nebula - M42 - just below Orion's Belt
The Moon - a crescent just after the New Moon
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Our Milky Way Galaxy
Photo taken above Armstrong Woods State Park
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The Eclipsing Moon with tiny "Spica" at the upper left - April 14 2014
M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
Barely visible in the telescope
Near the tail of the Big Dipper
The Horsehead Nebula
Not visible in the telescope
Located just South of Orion's Belt
The Pleiades
Visible in the telescope
The Running Man
Visible in the telescope
Located adjacent to the Orion Nebula
M13 - Globular Cluster in Hercules
Visible in the telescope
Located in Hercules
Comet Lovejoy - C/2013 R1
Visible in the telescope
Late Fall 2013
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Comet Lovejoy - C/2014 Q2
Visible in the telescope
January 2015
Fellow Astronomer Loren C at Skyline Park, Napa CA. We go to some beautiful locations! Wide open spaces with low and distant horizons.
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Our largest telescope set up on the patio outside our Home. You are welcome to view with us from this location in Freestone. Private, warm inside, adjacent to a vineyard, feel free to picnic under the gazebo.
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Posing at Bouchaine Vineyards in the Carneros wine growing region.
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Set up at the "Barn in Green Valley"
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Views and Animals we've seen near our home
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