In the days of film just prior to digital photography’s boom, photographers simply could not have made many of the nightscape images we see today. Film with enough light sensitivity to capture the stars and the rest of the Milky Way in all of the grandeur we are used to seeing in modern nightscape images […]
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North Coast Night Light: Freshwater Lagoon
Sometimes a creative urge will drive me nutty unless I can find a way to make something. I’m an artist but I am only interested in one medium: photography, which of course includes working with photos after taking the picture, whether with current digital tools or in the darkrooms of old as I started out. […]
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North Coast Night Lights: Grandmother Rock
It was nearly dark when I arrived at the Trinidad Head parking area. Sunset gazers had seen the sun set some 45 minutes earlier and were heading for their cars when I struck north up the beach. Night was descending and in the waning light I could see the footprints of the evening’s activity in […]
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North Coast Night Lights
Long have I been fascinated by photographing light in the dark of night. Other photographic interests come and go, but that one is always present, a constant pull on my imagination. If people go through phases in their art, I am definitely deep into a night phase. A photograph is not merely an impression of […]
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TESS the Planet Hunter
Last time, we discussed how NASA’s recently launched Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, will spend the next two years surveying nearly the entire sky to search for planets orbiting nearby stars, up to about 100 light years distant. TESS’s four wide-field cameras will spend a month at a time staring at swaths of the […]
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Forget the dredge, gold miners. Start building that starship.
Scientists have discovered what they believe might be the original mother lode — and it’s in an “exploding star system “3.9 billion light-years away,” according to a report in the <aLos Angeles Times</a today: “All the gold in the cosmos may have come from stellar cataclysms — the collision of two neutron stars, which sends bursts of particles and radiation […]