Photo Gallery

All of the following photographs were taken through our telescopes with our cameras.
Photography reveals far more color and detail than one sees in the telescope eyepiece.

October 25 2023

The Heart Nebula

June 30 2022

Milky Way Star Circle

June 30 2022

Albireo

March 30 2022

Orion and Redrock Canyon State Park

September 15 2021

Star circles looking East from our home

July 12 2021

View of the Geysers Geothermal Site from Lake Sonoma

Nightscape - The World at Night (TWAN)
Photo taken by Linda Sinkay, looking south from our Freestone home location.

July 12 2020 Comet

Comet NEOWISE - C/2020 F3
Visible with the naked eye and modest binoculars

June 28 2020 Moon

Photographed from our driveway in Freestone. Taken with a Raspberry Pi 4B and HQ Camera mounted at prime focus on an Orion 12" Newtonian Reflector.

August 21 2017 Solar Eclipse

October 14 2023 Annular Eclipse

We did not see totality due to the clouds, but this image was pretty dramatic.

October 11 2019 Transit of Mercury

Photographed from our deck in Freestone. Taken with a Canon T2i mounted at prime focus on an Orion 10" Newtonian Reflector. The Reflector is on a Celestron CGEM Equatorial Mount.

September 18 2017 alignment of Venus, the star Regulus, the Moon, Mars, and Mercury

The Double Cluster
Two beautiful "open clusters" of stars

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

The Andromeda Galaxy
Very bright in the telescope

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

The Triangulum Galaxy
Barely visible in the telescope - located below Andromeda

Photographic view

Clouds and Moon at Sunset

Our tiny Moon and dramatic Clouds

The Rosette Nebula
Not visible in the telescope - a photographic target only
Located above Orion's left shoulder

Photographic view

Venus and Mercury over Bodega Bay

The Moon - featuring the Clavius Crater
Clavius is the larger crater with several smaller internal craters increasing in size - to the left of center and just above the middle.

The Orion Nebula - M42 - just below Orion's Belt

Approximate view in telescope

The Moon - a crescent just after the New Moon

Our Milky Way Galaxy
Photo taken above Armstrong Woods State Park

The Eclipsing Moon with tiny "Spica" at the upper left - April 14 2014

Photographic view

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy
Barely visible in the telescope
Located at the end of the tail of the Big Dipper

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

The Horsehead Nebula
Not visible in the telescope - a photographic target only
Located just South of Orion's Belt

Photographic view

The Pleiades
Visible in the telescope

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

The Running Man
Visible in the telescope
Located adjacent to the Orion Nebula

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

M13 - the Great Globular Cluster in Hercules
Visible in the telescope
Located in Hercules

Approximate view in telescope

Photographic view

Comet Lovejoy - C/2013 R1
Visible in the telescope
Located very near the Eastern horizon - late Fall 2013

Photographic view

Comet Lovejoy - C/2014 Q2
Visible in the telescope
January 2015

Photographic view

Fellow Astronomer Loren C at Skyline Park, Napa CA
We go to some beautiful locations! Wide open spaces with low and distant horizons.

Our largest telescope set up on the patio outside our Home
You are welcome to view with us from this location in Freestone
Private, warm inside, adjacent to a vineyard, feel free to picnic under the gazebo

Posing at Bouchaine Vineyards in the Carneros wine growing region.

Set up at the "Barn in Green Valley"

Views and Animals we've seen near our home