Author Archives: aknudson
New Solar System Objects: Blue Angels!
Every summer, the Blue Angels perform in Seattle at SeaFair. For those that don’t know, the Blue Angels are the US Navy’s acrobatic flight team, and they perform all over the world. When in Seattle, they fly over Lake Washington, … Continue reading
Revisiting Some Favorites, And a New Nebula
I had a clear night a couple nights ago, without high clouds, and decided to give it a go. I was happy with what I captured! The first image is a new object (for me) – the Little Dumbbell Nebula. … Continue reading
I Tried To Catch a Saturnian Eclipse…
Unfortunately, it didn’t work out very well. On July 18th, Titan passed between Saturn and the Sun, casting a shadow over the Saturnian cloud tops. Unistellar pitched this on their website as a viewing opportunity, and I figured, what the … Continue reading
Maybe my new favorite picture
It’s been clear the last few nights, and I got some new photos. The first night I focused on galaxies that I’d not yet captured, and I got two new ones that are part of a cluster of galaxies referred … Continue reading
A couple revisits, a couple new ones
Despite the high clouds, I made another attempt a couple nights ago. Unfortunately, most of my long exposures got interrupted, and so I got two good images and one mediocre image. On the plus side, the mediocre one has 2 … Continue reading
A night for new objects
I wanted to capture some new things last night. Unfortunately, the high clouds kept ruining the tracking, so there’s about 4-5 photos that were 60 seconds or less, which I’m not even going to bother uploading. All my shots ended … Continue reading
Two revisits: M64 and NGC5907
One of the reasons I started this website was because I wanted a place to remember the objects I’ve already photographed, what I hadn’t, and what I wanted to re-visit. It worked! I got two re-visits last night: M64 – … Continue reading
And with the galaxies, that’s all I’ve got (so far)
The Galaxies page is now up, and that’s all the photos I’ve got that are worth putting on the website … so far. It’s cloudy tonight, so nothing new to add. My long-term plan is to update this website within … Continue reading
Now with more stars
Star clusters page is up! Not as many of them, but they’re still pretty cool. Note that individual stars (of which I’ve only taken 2) are also on that page.
Nebulae are up!
I’ve added the Nebulae page. Next up is probably star clusters, and then (the biggie) galaxies. I also added a slideshow of a lunar eclipse (in March of 2025) to the Solar Systems Objects page.
