Exploring the Earth and Sky of the West

Night Sky Photography: The Solar System

  • Transit of Venus, June 2012
  • Total lunar eclipse October 2014
    Total lunar eclipse on October 8 2014, as seen from Fort Collins, CO
  • Pink morning light on a snow-capped mountain peak with a full moon setting in the background.
    Full moon setting over Mt. Adams
  • A nearly full moon rises over a forest of trees
    A nearly full moon rises over the forests of the Cascade Mountains.
  • Close-up view of a comet with a bright nucleus and a two-pronged tail
    Comet C/2020 F3 (NEOWISE), Summer 2020
  • The Pleiades (left) and Comet 46P/Wirtanen, December 2018
  • The zodiacal light from Cedar Breaks National Monument, Utah
  • The zodiacal light from Southern Utah
  • Jupiter through the historic 24″ Clark Refractor at Lowell Observatory
  • Time sequence of lunar eclipse, April 4, 2015
  • Total solar eclipse, August 2017, Wyoming
  • The zodiacal light from Cedar City, Utah
  • Total lunar eclipse, May 15, 2022
  • Our first view of the eclipse through the clouds about 15 minutes before annularity begins
  • A broken ring of sunlight nearly surrounds the dark moon
    Moments before the annular eclipse begins, the Sun takes on the shape of an extreme crescent
  • A bright ring of sunlight surrounds the dark moon
    Annular solar eclipse, 8/14/2023 from central Oregon