Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Two Cresents

This morning the Moon occulted Venus. I observed the event from Kitt Peak National Observatory. The weather was quite poor - clouds, haze, wind and poor seeing but managed to get a couple of images through a Canon EOS 1D Mark II attached to a Questar 3.5 telescope.



Thursday, April 9, 2009

Lemmon Skies




360 degree panorama of the Mt. Lemmon Steward Observatory site. Each image is a single 2 minute exposure taken with a Canon 5D MkII & Sigma 8mm Fisheye| F/3.5 | ISO 400
polar to rectangularly converted and stretched 2.666:1.

Tuesday, April 7, 2009

Beauty and Talent




This weekend I had an opportunity to photograph a beautiful and talented Harpist from the University of Arizona. Here are a couple of images from that session.