Image Credit & Copyright: Todd Salat (AuroraHunter); Sky Annotation: Judy SchmidtExplanation: Some auroras can only be seen with a camera. They are called subvisual and are too faint to be seen with the unaided eye. In the above image, the green aurora...
Image Credit & Copyright: RASC Archives ; Acknowledgement: Bradley E. Schaefer (LSU)Explanation: One hundred years ago today the Great Meteor Procession of 1913 occurred, a sky event described by some as “magnificent” and “entrancing” and which left people feeling “spellbound” and “privileged”. Because one...
Video Credit & Copyright: Daniel López (El Cielo de Canarias)Explanation: There it goes. That small spot moving in front of background stars in the above video is a potentially dangerous asteroid passing above the Earth’s atmosphere. This past Friday,...
On April 27th 2012 the six man crew of Expedition 31 began their 62 day trip aboard the International Space Station (ISS). While in space the crew experimented with long exposure photography and the results are mesmerizing.
Copyright : Mario Tarello
Full Moon Silhouettes is a real time video of the moon rising over the Mount Victoria Lookout in Wellington, New Zealand. People had gathered up there this night to get the best view possible of the moon rising. I captured the video from 2.1km away on the other side of the city. It’s something that I’ve been wanting to photograph for a long time now, and a lot of planning and failed attempts had taken place. Finally, during moon rise on the 28th January 2013, everything fell into place and I got my footage.