Hanging Day

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Today was hanging day for my exhibition of photographs. I have many friends to thank for helping today - James Young, my old college buddy - Kristen Muench, renowned artist - Richard Mlakar, Master Craftsman - Michael Chitock, renowned artist and Cabinet maker, Cindy Mlakar, artist & sculpture and Educator - Gwen Russell Harvey - my sole mate. — at Dakota Cafe and Catering Co.

Solstice Sunset

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San Xavier Mission at sunset. This is a special day - the Summer Solstice. Only for a few weeks around this date can you see the sunset with this photogenic perspective.

Morning Moonrise

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Went out early this morning with my friend and photo enthusiast Frank, to photograph the crescent Moon rising over the center city of Tucson.

Catching the Light

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In preparation for the exhibition of my photography, I generated a quick and dirty slide show which will be show on a 24 inch monitor during the exhibit. My exhibition will take place on July 1st at the Dakota Cafe' in trail dust town. The exhibition is called "Catching the Light". The video below is the slide show in its entirety - 33 minutes long - and contains the best of my commercial, portraiture, landscape, astrophotography and photojournalism images. So pull up a chair and get comfortable.

The Transit of Venus

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The Product of the effort . . .

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The transit as seen in Hydrogen Alpha Light. Two frames from a video using a Lunt Solar Systems LS60T H-aplha telescope and a DMK41AU02.AS camera - One frame showing the prominences and one showing the chromosphere.



A video of the Sun setting behind the McMath Solar Telescope. I computed the position on the Earth where this event would take place in order to record this completely unique event. As you can see - I got my shot.



Tthe setup at home. We observed the first part of the transit from the backyard where I had setup two telescopes to record the transit beginning. The equipment is described here.



The setup at the location I computed for the sunset behind the McMath Solar Telescope.