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Six Years of Saturn
Here’s a snapshot of how Saturn’s tilt has changed (from Earth’s perspective) through its long (29-year) orbit around the sun over the past few years as seen through my telescope. Photo details: April...
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My first photo of Neptune!
On Monday night, I captured my first-ever photo of Neptune using my iPhone and 8″ telescope. This is a single, unedited 6 second exposure using the NightCap Pro app for iPhone. It may not look like...
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The Solar System with iPhone
I’ve been photographing the night sky through my telescope with my iPhone since 2011, but two objects have eluded me: Uranus and Neptune. Finally, in early 2017, I was able to capture them both. As a...
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Jupiter Double Shadow Transit with iPhone
Here is the view through my Celestron NexStar 8SE telescope from Saturday, June 3, 2017. Over the course of about two hours I captured the shadows of the moons Ganymede (top) and Io (bottom) as they...
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How to Photograph a Solar Eclipse with your Phone
If you want to take a photo of a solar eclipse but don’t have a solar filter for your DSLR camera or a solar-filtered telescope, there is a simple option: take a photo with your smartphone through...
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Solar Eclipse with iPhone!
We had fantastic weather here in Ottawa on August 21, 2017, and I was able to photograph my first solar eclipse! We saw 71% of the sun covered here in Ottawa and I took a boatload of photos and video....
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Another Solar Eclipse!
On June 10, 2021, Ottawa Canada woke up to an annular solar eclipse. I wasn’t sure that I’d even be able to view it given that it would be so low on the horizon and the day was forecast to be party...
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Astrophotography Has Come a Long Way, Baby – Part II
In 2014, I compared a photo I’d taken of the Orion Nebula with my iPhone to the first-ever photograph of the nebula (taken by Henry Draper in 1880) and noted how similar they looked. I’ve continued to...
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Remembering Terry Dickinson
When I was starting out in backyard astronomy, I learned so much by watching, listening to, and reading the work of Canada’s own Terence Dickinson, who passed away this week. He was a frequent guest...
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Aurora surprise!
During the evening of March 23, 2023, I started seeing a lot of chatter on Twitter about a northern lights show over Europe. Once it got dark here in Ontario, I saw a post from someone reporting...
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