Jeremy Perez
@perezmedia.bsky.social
Flagstaff, Arizona — art director, photographer, amateur astronomer, storm chaser.
November lightning. North Phoenix Wednesday night. I'll take it. Needs terrain.
#azwx #weatherphotography
#azwx #weatherphotography
November 22, 2025 at 1:48 AM
November lightning. North Phoenix Wednesday night. I'll take it. Needs terrain.
#azwx #weatherphotography
#azwx #weatherphotography
I wasn't in Phoenix for storms yesterday, but that changed in a snap after heading outdoors & seeing constant lightning over tops of buildings and a coherent cell on radar. Really glad to find this handy patch of unbuilt desert nearby to watch it move in.
#weatherphotography #azwx
#weatherphotography #azwx
November 21, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I wasn't in Phoenix for storms yesterday, but that changed in a snap after heading outdoors & seeing constant lightning over tops of buildings and a coherent cell on radar. Really glad to find this handy patch of unbuilt desert nearby to watch it move in.
#weatherphotography #azwx
#weatherphotography #azwx
Another from last night when finer detail was erupting behind the Peaks. It was absolutely on fire at that point. Vertical geometry corrected this time to better show how the pillars splayed outward toward the edges instead of all being parallel straight up.
#northernlights #nightscape
#northernlights #nightscape
November 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
Another from last night when finer detail was erupting behind the Peaks. It was absolutely on fire at that point. Vertical geometry corrected this time to better show how the pillars splayed outward toward the edges instead of all being parallel straight up.
#northernlights #nightscape
#northernlights #nightscape
A slice of what we got over the San Francisco Peaks and Mt. Elden from Buffalo Park, Flagstaff tonight around 9:45PM/0445Z. I really struggled to process this one. I am also tired. The brighter yellow-orange pillars appeared white-ish to my eye as it was happening.
#astrophotography #auroraborealis
#astrophotography #auroraborealis
November 12, 2025 at 8:30 AM
A slice of what we got over the San Francisco Peaks and Mt. Elden from Buffalo Park, Flagstaff tonight around 9:45PM/0445Z. I really struggled to process this one. I am also tired. The brighter yellow-orange pillars appeared white-ish to my eye as it was happening.
#astrophotography #auroraborealis
#astrophotography #auroraborealis
Imaging comet Lemmon on October 23rd. I was planning to focus stack the sky with the astro rig as it was shooting the comet. But then kind of preferred the soft focus sky with all the star color and Corona Borealis arcing beautifully at upper right. So indecisively posting both:)
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#astrophotography
November 2, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Imaging comet Lemmon on October 23rd. I was planning to focus stack the sky with the astro rig as it was shooting the comet. But then kind of preferred the soft focus sky with all the star color and Corona Borealis arcing beautifully at upper right. So indecisively posting both:)
#astrophotography
#astrophotography
That one time back in April, giving Tennessee storm chasing a shot. Try as one may to stick to farmland in the delta, the better storms are going to go where they want. Which means trees & highway overpasses. Glad to have experienced that, but not high on my wish-to-revisit list.
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#weatherphotography
November 1, 2025 at 7:35 PM
That one time back in April, giving Tennessee storm chasing a shot. Try as one may to stick to farmland in the delta, the better storms are going to go where they want. Which means trees & highway overpasses. Glad to have experienced that, but not high on my wish-to-revisit list.
#weatherphotography
#weatherphotography
Closer view of the coma & upstream tail.
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23 Oct 2025, 6:58-7:58PM MST/0158-0258Z
Canon EOS R5
William Optics ZenithStar 61 II APO
iOptron StarGuider Pro
53 x 60 sec., ISO 800
Subs aligned three ways & merged: stars, coma, tail
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23 Oct 2025, 6:58-7:58PM MST/0158-0258Z
Canon EOS R5
William Optics ZenithStar 61 II APO
iOptron StarGuider Pro
53 x 60 sec., ISO 800
Subs aligned three ways & merged: stars, coma, tail
October 25, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Closer view of the coma & upstream tail.
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23 Oct 2025, 6:58-7:58PM MST/0158-0258Z
Canon EOS R5
William Optics ZenithStar 61 II APO
iOptron StarGuider Pro
53 x 60 sec., ISO 800
Subs aligned three ways & merged: stars, coma, tail
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23 Oct 2025, 6:58-7:58PM MST/0158-0258Z
Canon EOS R5
William Optics ZenithStar 61 II APO
iOptron StarGuider Pro
53 x 60 sec., ISO 800
Subs aligned three ways & merged: stars, coma, tail
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from last night. It is a really good telescopic target right now! Lots more detail throughout the tail but especially close to the coma with streamers fanning out inside the dust tail. Interesting to see the turquoise coma breezing off to the right a bit too.
#astrophotography
#astrophotography
October 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from last night. It is a really good telescopic target right now! Lots more detail throughout the tail but especially close to the coma with streamers fanning out inside the dust tail. Interesting to see the turquoise coma breezing off to the right a bit too.
#astrophotography
#astrophotography
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with Arcturus blazing just above the horizon tonight. Naked eye, roughly 2° of the tail was visible compared to 5° in 15x70 binoculars and more like 8° in this shot. The heavy airglow was visible naked eye too as the comet dipped deeper into it.
#astrophotography #comet
#astrophotography #comet
October 24, 2025 at 6:20 AM
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) with Arcturus blazing just above the horizon tonight. Naked eye, roughly 2° of the tail was visible compared to 5° in 15x70 binoculars and more like 8° in this shot. The heavy airglow was visible naked eye too as the comet dipped deeper into it.
#astrophotography #comet
#astrophotography #comet
An abrupt tail disconnect with comet Lemmon Friday night. Almost didn't catch it in time to get in frame. The tail is streaming away fast. Frame by frame you can watch all of that breezing away from the comet 3-4 times faster than the comet is orbiting off to the left.
#astrophtography #comet
#astrophtography #comet
October 20, 2025 at 3:57 PM
An abrupt tail disconnect with comet Lemmon Friday night. Almost didn't catch it in time to get in frame. The tail is streaming away fast. Frame by frame you can watch all of that breezing away from the comet 3-4 times faster than the comet is orbiting off to the left.
#astrophtography #comet
#astrophtography #comet
Wide view of C/2025 R2 SWAN, M16, M17 and M24 dunking into the San Francisco Peaks and airglow Friday night. A bit of fall color showing up on those hills...along with a bright pumice mine.
#astrophotography #comet
#astrophotography #comet
October 20, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Wide view of C/2025 R2 SWAN, M16, M17 and M24 dunking into the San Francisco Peaks and airglow Friday night. A bit of fall color showing up on those hills...along with a bright pumice mine.
#astrophotography #comet
#astrophotography #comet
Two swans and an eagle.
Comet SWAN—C/2025 R2—is drifting through the Milky Way now. Last night it drifted by M16/the Eagle Nebula and M17/the Swan Nebula. Lots of love already for comet colors, but that bumps up a few notches when a bright nebula or two are nearby.
#astrophotography #comet
Comet SWAN—C/2025 R2—is drifting through the Milky Way now. Last night it drifted by M16/the Eagle Nebula and M17/the Swan Nebula. Lots of love already for comet colors, but that bumps up a few notches when a bright nebula or two are nearby.
#astrophotography #comet
October 19, 2025 at 3:22 AM
Two swans and an eagle.
Comet SWAN—C/2025 R2—is drifting through the Milky Way now. Last night it drifted by M16/the Eagle Nebula and M17/the Swan Nebula. Lots of love already for comet colors, but that bumps up a few notches when a bright nebula or two are nearby.
#astrophotography #comet
Comet SWAN—C/2025 R2—is drifting through the Milky Way now. Last night it drifted by M16/the Eagle Nebula and M17/the Swan Nebula. Lots of love already for comet colors, but that bumps up a few notches when a bright nebula or two are nearby.
#astrophotography #comet
Once the last bit of twilight is gone, you might think, aha, maximum contrast! But then the blazing airglow says, aha, no! Tail shows up better at this point, but can’t pull it out any further with all the intervening ripples. Even with that, I still like what airglow does for a scene.
October 17, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Once the last bit of twilight is gone, you might think, aha, maximum contrast! But then the blazing airglow says, aha, no! Tail shows up better at this point, but can’t pull it out any further with all the intervening ripples. Even with that, I still like what airglow does for a scene.
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) at the beginning of astronomical twilight tonight. I could just barely make it out naked eye as a soft spot above left of Cor Caroli. I'm biding my time a bit on processing the telescopic shots, but it looks like there was a cool tail disconnect in progress.
#astrophotography
#astrophotography
October 17, 2025 at 6:38 AM
C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) at the beginning of astronomical twilight tonight. I could just barely make it out naked eye as a soft spot above left of Cor Caroli. I'm biding my time a bit on processing the telescopic shots, but it looks like there was a cool tail disconnect in progress.
#astrophotography
#astrophotography
I need to shoot twilight starscapes more often—not just when comets are trying to hide within. Can you spot it? Second pic points the way. C/2025 R2 (SWAN) Thursday evening. Not an obvious one like NEOWISE or Tsuchinshan-ATLAS recently. But I do have hopes for Lemmon soon.
#comet #astrophotography
#comet #astrophotography
October 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I need to shoot twilight starscapes more often—not just when comets are trying to hide within. Can you spot it? Second pic points the way. C/2025 R2 (SWAN) Thursday evening. Not an obvious one like NEOWISE or Tsuchinshan-ATLAS recently. But I do have hopes for Lemmon soon.
#comet #astrophotography
#comet #astrophotography
And then there's the other bright comet, C/2025 R2 (SWAN). Nice that it's an evening object, but it's still in heavy twilight + gibbous moon + horizon loving clouds. So definitely not as detailed as Lemmon the morning before. 1.5° tail looks yellowish—so maybe dust, not ion.
#comet #astrophotography
#comet #astrophotography
October 4, 2025 at 8:52 PM
And then there's the other bright comet, C/2025 R2 (SWAN). Nice that it's an evening object, but it's still in heavy twilight + gibbous moon + horizon loving clouds. So definitely not as detailed as Lemmon the morning before. 1.5° tail looks yellowish—so maybe dust, not ion.
#comet #astrophotography
#comet #astrophotography
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from wayyy too early Thursday morning with all the good comet colors in the coma, dust & ion tails—with that stretching 6° in the uncropped original. It should keep getting better over the next few weeks and finally make it's way to the evening sky. A more tolerable place.
October 4, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) from wayyy too early Thursday morning with all the good comet colors in the coma, dust & ion tails—with that stretching 6° in the uncropped original. It should keep getting better over the next few weeks and finally make it's way to the evening sky. A more tolerable place.
West of Flagstaff this afternoon. The search for structure worked out reasonably well. Better at times than this, but the CG demanded this moment be highlighted.
#weatherphotography #stormchasing #azwx
#weatherphotography #stormchasing #azwx
September 26, 2025 at 4:43 AM
West of Flagstaff this afternoon. The search for structure worked out reasonably well. Better at times than this, but the CG demanded this moment be highlighted.
#weatherphotography #stormchasing #azwx
#weatherphotography #stormchasing #azwx
I’d say this tour group got their money’s worth!
I had planned to be driving home that day, but forecast instability & boundary options convinced me to hang around another day. SPC wasn’t too impressed though until 20Z as things started happening. May 1, 2025, Briggs, TX.
#stormchasing
I had planned to be driving home that day, but forecast instability & boundary options convinced me to hang around another day. SPC wasn’t too impressed though until 20Z as things started happening. May 1, 2025, Briggs, TX.
#stormchasing
September 18, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I’d say this tour group got their money’s worth!
I had planned to be driving home that day, but forecast instability & boundary options convinced me to hang around another day. SPC wasn’t too impressed though until 20Z as things started happening. May 1, 2025, Briggs, TX.
#stormchasing
I had planned to be driving home that day, but forecast instability & boundary options convinced me to hang around another day. SPC wasn’t too impressed though until 20Z as things started happening. May 1, 2025, Briggs, TX.
#stormchasing
Not enough time to haul off to a spot with a lower horizon, but the brief aurora display still lofted the tree tops at the end of astronomical twilight. East side of Flagstaff 35°N. 8:04 PM MST/0304Z.
#northernlights #nightscape
#northernlights #nightscape
September 15, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Not enough time to haul off to a spot with a lower horizon, but the brief aurora display still lofted the tree tops at the end of astronomical twilight. East side of Flagstaff 35°N. 8:04 PM MST/0304Z.
#northernlights #nightscape
#northernlights #nightscape
Zodiacal Light blazing among the cinder cones north of Flagstaff. I love the depth showing up in scenes like this. Beyond the foreground lie ripples of airglow, further out the dust of our solar system slicing through and enveloping Jupiter & Venus, all atop a Milky Way backdrop.
#nightscape
#nightscape
September 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Zodiacal Light blazing among the cinder cones north of Flagstaff. I love the depth showing up in scenes like this. Beyond the foreground lie ripples of airglow, further out the dust of our solar system slicing through and enveloping Jupiter & Venus, all atop a Milky Way backdrop.
#nightscape
#nightscape
Fallen, snaggy tree and Flagstaff lights catching the Milky Way with SP Crater peeking in from the right.
The camera had to almost get in the dirt for this one.
#nightscape #astrophotography
The camera had to almost get in the dirt for this one.
#nightscape #astrophotography
August 26, 2025 at 4:54 PM
Fallen, snaggy tree and Flagstaff lights catching the Milky Way with SP Crater peeking in from the right.
The camera had to almost get in the dirt for this one.
#nightscape #astrophotography
The camera had to almost get in the dirt for this one.
#nightscape #astrophotography
Occlusion approaching Hwy62/70 west of Matador, Texas on April 24th. It was moving slightly left to right from this spot, but not fast enough for my liking, so I drifted back west after this shot & got a view of nothing but rain as it crossed the road.
#weatherphotography #stormchasing
#weatherphotography #stormchasing
August 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Occlusion approaching Hwy62/70 west of Matador, Texas on April 24th. It was moving slightly left to right from this spot, but not fast enough for my liking, so I drifted back west after this shot & got a view of nothing but rain as it crossed the road.
#weatherphotography #stormchasing
#weatherphotography #stormchasing
I scouted unpaved roads south of Winslow looking for a decommissioned bridge Sunday night but got diverted by unexpected fences & gates. Along the way, some weathered sandstone outcrops kindly showed up and filled in while Payson tried to keep the Milky Way from touching the horizon.
#milkyway
#milkyway
August 19, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I scouted unpaved roads south of Winslow looking for a decommissioned bridge Sunday night but got diverted by unexpected fences & gates. Along the way, some weathered sandstone outcrops kindly showed up and filled in while Payson tried to keep the Milky Way from touching the horizon.
#milkyway
#milkyway
Storms got stingy with CGs after crossing the Bradshaws Friday night. Just enough IC flashes to keep one hopeful. Looking west over Dewey as the gust front moved in.
#stormchasing #weatherphotography
#stormchasing #weatherphotography
August 18, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Storms got stingy with CGs after crossing the Bradshaws Friday night. Just enough IC flashes to keep one hopeful. Looking west over Dewey as the gust front moved in.
#stormchasing #weatherphotography
#stormchasing #weatherphotography