Spending the weekend on lake Pokegama (Po- Keg-Ama, not Pokey-Gamma) in Grand Rapids gave a nice opportunity to get some really dark skies for astronomy and astrophotography. The first evening was overcast until well past my bed-time. The second evening was pretty special. Around 10pm, the milky way was glowing overhead, the constellations were hard …
Monthly Archives: October 2014
Solar eclipse October 2014
An unexpected bonus of being in the US this October was the chance to see the partial solar eclipse. A simple setup with a nature spotting telescope let me grab this image. A large sunspot group is just visible vanishing behind both the moon and the silhouette of the house on the other side of …
Minnesota
I’m in Minnesota, Minneapolis to be precise for the next few weeks. It’s pretty with autumnal colours.