Looking to the Sky

It’s easy to get lost in the hustle and bustle of every day life. Occasionally, I like to take time out of my evenings away from my career, my personal obligations, etc, and look up at the sky. It’s extremely humbling to reflect on how small we are in the universe. We are literally just a small speck of blue in the sky. A speck of blue that can probably barely be seen by just the other planets in our solar system.

Unfortunately, light pollution, and extreme distances of thousands to millions of light years obfuscate what you can actually see in the sky with the naked eye. That’s why it’s great to have a decent telescope and a digital SLR camera. The following are images I put together using photos taken via my Celestron C8-NGT Telescope, and my Nikon D60. Most of them consist of 20-30 second exposures stacked together using lynkeos.

This is a photo of a friend of mine w/our Telescopes. We’ve got our scopes pointed at the sun, and are using Mylar filters to take pictures of the transit of Venus.

This is a photo I took with my iPhone 4S of the Transit of Venus. I didn’t yet have my SLR.

Jupiter is the largest planet in the solar system.

Saturn is the second largest planet in the solar system.

The Orion Nebula.

Andromeda Galaxy. This is the nearest Galaxy to our own, The Milky Way.

Sirius is the brightest star in our sky.