Thanks to my friend, Bo Edwards, I was in position to shoot the ISS passing in front of the Moon this morning at 5:43 in Perryville. I used a 127mm Maksutov telescope and my Canon T8i and shot video. The transit took only 0.66 seconds to happen but we could see it coming and knew when to start the cameras. It was moving fast and my stills show two parallel streaks in each frame. On the way home, I stopped at Lake Maumelle to watch the sunrise. It was the same very hazy promising to be very hot conditions we seen for a while.
7/20/2025 Moon and the Pleiades
On the morning of July 20, 2025 the Moon passed through the Pleiades star cluster, perhaps the second closest such cluster to the solar system. It was a slow motion event, each frame here was separated by 30 seconds and I captured about an hour and 45 minutes of footage, all in 22 seconds. I got a little dew on the lens toward the end as I forgot a dew heater strap.


