| Location/Time | Description | Raw Image | Annotated Image | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Aldebran, the Pleadies (M45), the Hyades, more | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Aldebran (centered), the Hyades, more | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Columba, the dove. About 40% of this photograph is below the horizon. The bright streak at the lower right isn't a meteorite, but only an aircraft (I'm not sure if I included it intentionally or not). | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Pegasus, somewhat dimmed by city lights | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Portions of Fornax and Eridanus | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Cygnus and Pegasus, dimmed a bit by city lights | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Western edge of the Great Square of Pegasus and vicinty | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Portions of Pegasus, Andromeda, and Lacerta (the spot near the bottom center of the photograph is a stain on the photograph itself and not some sort of dark matter nebula, alas) | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Eastern edge of the Great Square of Pegasus, portions of Andromeda, Pegasus and Pisces; the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is visible near the top right. | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | The star Altair of Aquila is centered in this field, which also includes Saggita and Delphinus. | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | A poorer shot of Altair and vicinity as they set. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Andromeda and vicinity; the Andromeda galaxy (M31) is prominent near the center-top of this photograph. | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | Arcturus of Bootes is centered in this field. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Beehive (Praesepe) Cluster in Cancer and vicinity | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | The Big Dipper. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | The Big Dipper rises over the Sandia mountains. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Capella of Auriga and vicinity. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Casseopia and vicinity. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Gemini and vicinity. | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | Centered roughly on HR5581 in Bootes (I probably just aimed randomly), this picture features a split Mizar/Alcor. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Ursa Minor and vicinity, dimmed slightly by city lights. Perhaps interestingly, this photograph includes the north celestial pole (according to my calculations), but not Polaris, which is actually about a degree away from the pole; I am not sure if I wanted to get Polaris right at the top of the photograph (and omitted it accidentally), or if I omitted it intentionally. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Orion and vicinity. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Procyon and vicinity. | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Sirius and vicinity as Canis Major rises. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Sirius, Rigel, and vicinity. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Sirius and vicinity | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Eridanus, Cetus, and vicinity. Two of our closest neighbors, Epsilon Eridani (11 light years) and Tau Ceti (12 light years), are photographed here, and are perhaps of special interest to Trekkies-- Epsilon Eridani is the star about which Mr. Spock's and Mr. Tuvok's home world of Vulcan revolves, and Tau Ceti is the star system to which Khan Noonian Singh was exiled in "Space Seed"; Tau Ceti is featured again when Khan returns in the movie "Star Trek II: Wrath of Khan"). | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | Vega in Lyra is centered in this field; note how Epsilon Lyra is nominally split, similar to the naked eye view. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Venus in Aquarius and vicinity, dimmed by city lights. | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Venus in Aquarius, dimmed by city lights; though Aquarius is a little hard to see, Venus shines very brightly. | View original image | ||
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | I think this shot is centered on Zeta Bootes but not completely sure; Arcturus and Alphekka seem to be visible. (heavy tree cover) | View original image | Annotations currently not available for this image | |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | This shot (I probably aimed randomly) includes both Muscida and Talitha in Ursa Major. The "joke" here is that both Muscida and Talitha refer to 2 stars each. Muscida can refer to either Omicron Ursae Majoris (omiUMA in the annotated picture) or Pi Ursae Majoris (pi2UMA), while Talitha can refer to either Iota Ursae Majoris (iotUMA) or Kappa Ursae Majoris (kapUMA). We astronomers are a wacky bunch, huh? | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Polaris and vicinity | View original image | ||
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Cepheus and vicinity | View original image | ||
| Unknown | I sometimes aim the camera randomly and shoot. These pictures all represent random shots. I have no idea what stars are pictured here. If you can help, please send me an email. Special thanks to Plett Keng who identified unknown image #1, and to the anonymous Mturker who identified image #4! |
| View unknown image #3 |
| Cupertino, CA (early 1990s) | Dramatic evidence the Earth rotates, this picture of star trails should hold some interest even for non-astronomers. | View Image |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | Just how dark is it when I take pictures of the night sky? It was so dark that my friend barely recognize my silhouette to take this picture -- he also left the focus set an infinity, and the film was pretty fast to begin with, so my face looks really blurry (believe me, that's a good thing!). What's odd is that, despite the near pitch darkness, the picture looks like it was taken on a partly sunny day... except that you can see stars in the background! | View Image |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | And here's a picture of the friend who helped me take many of these pictures-- out of focus, grainy, and taken in near pitch blackness like my picture-- ance once again appearing quite bright. An airplane can be seen flying in the background, flashing its lights once every second (?). | View Image |
| Albuquerque, NM 14 Jan 1996 (7:30pm) | What happens when you shoot too close to the horizon? The stars are dimmed by city lights. At 15-second(?) exposure and with fast film, The Lights of Albuquerque (also the name of a song) aren't particularly impressive. A sprinkling of stars is also visible in some of the photographs. | Lights of Albuquerque #1 |
| Lights of Albuquerque #2 | ||
| Lights of Albuquerque #3 | ||
| NA | If you're an absolute purist, you might wonder if there are any imperfections with my scanner that might cause the images above to be less than 100% accurate. For reference, I performed a scan with nothing on the scanner. Surprisingly, a couple of specks are visible (I thought my scanner surface was very clean). In theory, you could "subtract out" this image from any of the images above to get a truer idea of what the image looked like... in theory! | View Image |
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