3/29/2026 ISS Transits the Moon!

Here’s a shout out to my friend, Bo Edwards, keeping an eye out for these things. We were able to catch the International Space Station transiting the Moon Sunday night at about 8:30. The ISS was very bright, brighter than some parts of the Moon, so you can follow it as it passed in front of the Moon. It was all over in about a second. See the video, the composite, and the closeup. I rotated the composite so that it would look the way we saw it and how the Moon normally looks. Shot with a Canon R6 paired with a 1500mm FL MCT. Each frame was 1/4000th of a second at ISO 25600.

3/26/2026 The Milky Way

So, on Wednesday, March 25th, my friend Deepak Kumar reached out and asked “Hey, Jim. You want to get up at 1AM Thursday morning, drive two hours to a dark sky site, shoot the Milky Way for an hour, then drive two hours back before going to work for the day?”. Sure, I said. I used my Canon R6 with a 14mm lens from one of the darkest spots in Arkansas, Tyler Bend Campground on the Buffalo National River.

3/3/2026 Lunar Eclipse with a jet

I’m late to the party, had a full day Tuesday, but here are my images of the March 3 Lunar eclipse from the end of my driveway. Mine has an airplane going through it! Each image was just over a half second long so the plane had time to move.

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