“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” Rutger Hauer’s haunting words spoken by Roy Batty in the 1982 science fiction […]
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Four billion years from now our sun might look a little like this except for one striking difference. It will not have those ever changing sunspots that dance across the face of the sun as we see it in the sky today. Well at least you would if you were looking at it through welding […]
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For all of Winter I have missed Orion in the night sky and until Summer the hunter will remain out of sight for all but the most dedicated night owls. This is image of the hunter is quite special for me and realises, albeit only just, a goal I have had all my life. Gazing […]
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By far the most amazing visual spectacle in the night sky is our very own Milky Way Galaxy. To really appreciate it though you need to be far away from populated regions so that city lights do not mask out the detail. This weekend I had the good fortune to spend time with my family […]
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This afternoon while photographing sunspots a favorite Pink Floyd song came to mind. “While you were hanging yourself on someone else’s words Dying to believe in what you heard I was staring straight into the shining sun” Photo: Robert Rath, ‘Staring Straight Into The Shining Sun’ 1/640s f/16 ISO100 400mm filter 400ND + Long pass […]
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