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Here is my capture of Comet 46P/Wirtanen at closest approach early this morning from Sheridan, Wyoming. This image was shot with a Nikon 180mm f2.8 lens on a Nikon D750. It is a stack of 8 2.5 minute exposures, along with 4 dark and bias frames. An iOptron Skytracker was used to track the stars. htt...

Comet 46P/Wirtanen over the Bighorn Mountains, Wyoming To create this image I first shot a 4 panel mosaic of the comet using a Nikon D750 and Nikon 180mm f2.8 lens on an iOptron Skytracker mount. Those shots were 2.5 minutes, f/5, ISO 1000. Then I turned off the tracking and shot a time-lapse of the...

It was 4AM in the grasslands of southeast Montana. I was spending the night under the stars while my camera clicked away, but the cold breeze made sleep hard to come by. I thought I detected a bright flash of light, but wasn't sure if my eyes were playing tricks on me. It wasn't until I got home tha...

http://darksitefinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Lunar-Eclipse.jpg Lunar-Eclipse[1].jpg After an evening snowstorm in northeast Wyoming, the clouds cleared out just in time before the lunar eclipse began. Devil's Tower was covered in white, and it was a beautiful scene as the moon entered totali...

http://darksitefinder.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/DSC_5685-Edit.jpg With both clear skies and a geomagnetic storm predicted for September 28th, I headed to southern Saskatchewan. Grasslands National Park is a long ways from anywhere. During the day the landscape seems stark and desolate, especia...

Website: http://www.kevin-palmer.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevinPalmerPhotography1 Copyright: Kevin Palmer The two brightest objects in the night sky appear side by side in front of the milky way in a rare alignment. Venus is the blue object, and the yellow object is the moon. Even thou...

Website: http://www.kevin-palmer.com Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/KevinPalmerPhotography1 Copyright: Kevin Palmer Thousands of stars forming the milky way galaxy are seen above a deep canyon in Utah. The Colorado River flows 2000 feet below the rim of Dead Horse Point into Canyonlands National...