Getting places before the crack of dawn is getting harder and harder. Six or seven weeks ago it was 7:30ish, this morning it was 6:25. Vista Point on Lake Maumelle.
04/26/2026 Sunrise at Lake Maumelle
4/25/2026 Feeder Birds
I spent part of the morning visiting my old friend, Roy, and shooting feeder birds. The more exotic birds seen, Rose-breasted Grosbeaks and Baltimore Orioles were present but shy.
American Goldfinch
Downy Woodpecker
Eastern Bluebird
Brown Thrasher
Northern Cardinal
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.
