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Yesterday's full moonrise.

#astrophotography #moonhour #moonphotography

Witnessed the magical display of synchronous fireflies right in our backyard of Oxford, Mississippi's whirlpool trails. A whole swarm blinking on and off in unison! While common fireflies give small yellow swooshes in long exposures like this, "snappy syncs" give off dotted trails.

The "Paschal" full moon which signals the advent of Easter, rising over a busy saturday evening University Avenue in Oxford MS.

The Moon is a master of the dark arts. The first astro event to look forward to in 2025 is a lunar occultation of Mars, when the Moon will gobble up the planet, and spit it out on the other side a few hours later. Visible from most of N.America and east Africa (1/2)

My top space pictures of the year.

#1: Undoubtedly the astro-event of the year, the April 2024 total solar eclipse mesmerized folks across North America with up to 4 surreal minutes of totality where time both stood still and flashed by.

My top space pictures of the year.

#2: A surprise visit by a comet brighter and fuzzier than 2020's Neowise, which was the first one I ever saw. Tsuchinshan-ATLAS stole the show in the Fall skies this year.

My top space pictures of the year. It's been a less busy year for astrophotography having spent half of it in light-polluted DC. The city did give me plenty of urban vistas to chase the rising Moon, one of which is my pick for...

#3: one of the supermoons rises over the Jefferson Memorial.

One month since I spotted comet Tsuchinshan-Atlas. The once-in-a-lifetime cosmic visitor is now more than 15 light-minutes away from us. #comet #astrophotography

Comet Tsuchanshin-ATLAS, our cosmic visitor, has begun its millenia-long journey back to the cold outer reaches of the solar system. It's getting dimmer, but looks just as grand through a pair of binoculars, or this 30 s camera exposure. #comet #comettsuchanshin

Throwback to the magnificent total solar eclipse from earlier this month. A composite of partial phases taken roughly 5 minutes apart + the diamond ring
#astronomy #astrophotography #solareclipse

The mesmerizing total solar eclipse seen from Herber Springs, Arkansas.

The Moon rises over cherry blooms next to the Jefferson memorial, Washington DC.

Excited to present my first public #astrophotography display at Heartbreak coffee on the square at Oxford, MS, thanks to the Yoknapatawpha arts council!

I’m thrilled to announce that I’ve been selected as a winner of the Eric and Wendy Schmidt Awards for Excellence in Science Communications, given by Natn'l Academy of Science, for my #astronomy reporting last summer with the LA Times.

Learn more: www.nationalacademies.org/news/2023/11... #scicomm

While the dark moon appears exquisitely smooth during an eclipse, its surface irregularities, the mountains and valleys, are made evident when the moon *just* brushes off the Sun’s edge. 1/3

New here, and for my first post I'd like to share a picture I took last week from the clear blue skies of Albuquerque, New Mexico, but darkened out to show the perfect ring-of-fire annular eclipse!