Logging Camp
Middletown
What if there is no “next time”?
A true story. One day a woman was attending church with her neighbors. The families went forward to Communion while the younger children waited in the pews. The woman, however, did not get up to go to the communion rail. The six-year old boy seated beside her asked her why she was not taking Communion. …
North America Nebula
The North America Nebula, a/k/a NGC 7000 is an emission nebula. It emits very narrow-band red light. I used a 5 nm FWHM spike filter to pass only the red light. This completely eliminates the light pollution at my site. This was a 60 minute total exposure colorized in Photoshop.
Kemble’s Cascade
Kemble’s Cascade (Kemble 1), located in the constellation Camelopardalis, is an asterism — a pattern created by unrelated stars. It was named by Walter Scott Houston in honour of Father Lucian Kemble (1922–1999), a Franciscan friar and amateur astronomer who wrote a letter to Houston about the asterism, describing it as “a beautiful cascade of faint stars tumbling from the northwest down to the open cluster NGC 1502” that …