January 25, 2019
A Southern Dogface deep in a mallow flower. It is rare to get any
kind of shot of the upper wings as this species always holds its wings
up when perched and I rarely can even catch one perched. The antennae are
protruding from the top of the flower.
One of a pair of Loggerhead Shrikes near the Bajada Well.
I found a nest that I think is theirs, but no eggs yet.
Black-chinned Sparrow, always a good bird to see.
Two Black-chinned Sparrows in one image!
This is NGC 1360 (the Robins Egg Nebula) and NGC 1398, a galaxy.
A tighter crop on NGC 1398. NGC 1398 is a barred
spiral galaxy exhibiting a double ring structure, very odd. It is located in the
constellation of Fornax. At 65 million light years distance, this
is what it looked like when the dinosaurs were going extinct. The
galaxy has a diameter of 135,000 light years and is slightly
larger than the Milky Way.
A tighter crop of the Robins Egg Nebula, a planetary nebula in Fornax. I've done
this nebula before and will have to dig up my old files and combine
them all. I'm taking more images tonight too. It only gets up to about
30 degrees above the horizon.
Snakes are coming back out! I found this Western Patch-nosed Snake on a desert road today.
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