Venus
- Venus at dusk (Venus is the bright dot next to the flag pole)
The Moon and Saturn
- The Moon and Saturn at dawn (The moon is obvious, and Saturn is the dot just to the right of it). Another bonus in this picture: Look at the moon. The crescent is obvious, that's light from the sun bouncing off the moon down here to Earth...... but look very closely at where the rest of the moon should be; you can see a very vague outline of the full sphere of the moon. That's called Earthshine...... a.k.a. sunlight bouncing off Earth to the moon and then bouncing off the moon back to Earth.
Moon Over the Ocean
- Moon over the Ocean at 2 AM (Unfortunately the long exposure time made the Moon a big bright spot instead of a defined waxing gibbeous shape, which is what it was. Oh well. Also, I put the image (800x600 pixels) onto a 1000x1000 black background, because it's more striking that way than with the white background of the browser.)
Iridium Flare
- Make-shift Iridium Flare apparatus (An Iridium Flare is the name given to the phenomenon of a low-orbiting Iridium satellite reflecting sunlight to Earth. They last just a few seconds and look like a VERY bright meteor (the one I saw was of brightness magnitude -7.7, which is nearly 40 times as bright as Venus which you can see in the first picture on this page). Accurate predictions for seeing Iridium Flares and other satellites are easily found at http://www.heavens-above.com. Unfortunately, the satellite passed by too quickly for me to take a picture of it. Many pictures of them exist online, just do a search for them. Instead, I took a picture of the set-up I used to figure out where exactly to look. Pretty ingenius, I'd say.)