Starship Asterisk*

Lunar occultation of Venus
Time - 5:40 PM
Place - Bangalore, Karnataka
Gear - Nikon D500 + Nikon 200-500

Partial Lunar Eclipse 2022

Partial Lunar Eclipse 2022 from Bengaluru,India.

Partial Solar Eclipse from Bengaluru, India.
Time : ~5:50PM IST
Date : 25th October, 2022
Gear : Nikon D500 with Nikon 200-500 telephoto lens.

Jupiter? Or our own Moon?

Last week, a stunning moonrise accompanied by gorgeous thin clouds made our Moon look like Jupiter.

Location: Bangalore, Karnataka

Moonrise from Bangalore, India
Date : 26th June 2021

Cloud Iridescence One of the best cloud iridescence I have ever seen till now. This was from yesterday evening from the skies of Bangalore, India. This is a phenomenon due to diffraction of small water droplets or ice crystals. As this happened during the sunset, you can see a bunch of Rose Ringed P...

Batmoon! This was a plan for a long time to capture something interesting crossing the path of the Moon. Everyday, hundreds of fruit bats travel at dusk just after the sunset. I wanted to capture an image of a bat against the moon. With a lot of perseverance and spending much time, I was finally ab...

Batmoon! This was a plan for a long time to capture something interesting crossing the path of the Moon. Everyday, hundreds of fruit bats travel at dusk just after the sunset. I wanted to capture an image of a bat against the moon. With a lot of perseverance and spending much time, I was finally abl...

A stacked composite image of the Partial Solar Eclipse seen from Bangalore, Karnataka, India on June 21, 2020. The image you see shows the movement of the Moon, right from the start of the eclipse at around 10:12 AM local time, traversing the Sun until the end of the eclipse at about 1:31 PM local t...

A Composite image of the the International Space Station transiting the Sun photographed from my apartment terrace in Bangalore, India on June 8th, 2020. The sunspot AR 2765 is also visible in the photo. A dream come true to photograph this event in my second attempt. Copyright : Ashwin Deshpande/Am...