Pinwheel Orion Sun and Jupiter

Jupiter was the only one that seemed to play nice in the gusty wind that made astrophotography a little challenging last night...

Orion Nebula M42 Distance 1,500 Light Years = 8,817,900,000,000,000 miles

Pinwheel Galaxy - Distance 21 million Light Years = 123,451,133,000,000,000,000 miles

Ganymede Europa Jupiter Io

Prominences Galor on the Sun today

Jupiter & Saturn

Jupiter and from left to right Jupiter's own moons: Io, Ganymede, Europa. 

Everybody's favorite planet - the ringed Saturn. 

 

Astronomy Stuff

 

Arches and Non-Arches at Arches National Park

There are over 2 dozen arches in the park and hiked to each one so there is at least one picture of each arch plus some non-arch stuff.

This is now one of my favorite pictures as the tree perfectly conformed to the Arch - even though it was well outside the Arch.

 

Budda statue

Elephant statue

Triple arch

Lion King

sniffing dog

Behind cave number 1, 2 or 3

Mouse kissing

Double hole

Just for fun

Rock porthole

Growing in the middle

Another double arch

Wall garden