Hello ALL! Did you see it? The comet PanSTARRS made it’s debut over the northern skies, and is now on it’s way onward! To be entirely honest, it is very hard to see. Even with great guides like Sky and Telescope, just finding it in the sky proved to be a challenge. I managed to [...]
In light of our plans to trek northward across much of North America, north of the Arctic Circle, we thought it would be a good idea to get some new jackets. Being from Southern California, where the temperatures can be in the mid 90′s even in November, we think of cold as around 40 degrees. [...]
Being a photographer and videographer means that, occasionally, I get to meet some very exceptional artists. Lori Gilbert, from her self-titled company Lori Gilbert Art, is one such person. (Pictured Above: Lori Gilbert places microphone for her interview) Recently, she was featured on the Thread Sense blog, in which they really captured her enthusiasm [...]
(Pictured above is an Atlas V rocket launched from Vandenburg) The Space Shuttle Endeavour will begin its trip from LAX Friday morning, arriving Saturday afternoon at the Discovery Science Center in LA. People often ask what is NASA going to do now that the space shuttle has been decommissioned. As a space junky, I find [...]
Summer time has come, and is almost gone, so I thought I would write up a little recap of what has happened, and what our hopes for the future are. Beginning with our return from Crater Lake, we had hours upon hours of footage To sift through. The task of editing that footage down to [...]
Our little day hike up Mount Baldy brought a few items to light about backpacks. I love my backpack. I have fine tuned the adjustments on the pack for years. Everything fits, I just load it up, put it on, and go. That is how I saw it anyways. The truth is that I hadn’t [...]
A fascinating yearly event just happened this Saturday before last, May 19th, 2012; Cal Tech’s Seminar Day. This is one of those events that I am surprised more people don’t attend. A day full of seminar lectures by Cal Tech’s top minds, discussing their particular areas of research. There are five sessions, plus a general [...]
Solar Eclipses are a rare event, and of course, when we found out about the eclipse on May 20th, 2012 we just had to photograph it. But while we have photographed many night skies with very little light, how do you photograph day skies with an abundance of light? For instance, the light needed to [...]
As you might imagine, it takes a certain interest in Astronomy to start a whole project about night sky photography. It is true, we have loved the night sky, the ideas of world beyond our own are absolutely fascinating. It seems to only make sense to have a section of the blog dedicated to all [...]
Saturday morning, Kyle, Tim, and myself set out for Mount Baldy, or as it is officially named, Mount San Antonio. Now, there are two ways to the top. Both routes start at around 6000′, and one direction takes you to the top over the course of 7 miles, the other does it in 4. We [...]
