January 3, 2019
The Rosette Nebula. A big nebula that nearly fills the frame of my camera at 500mm focal length.
This time I got the Flaming Star Nebula framed correctly.
Just had to do it again, the Horsehead Nebula. Sixty 90 second exposures. I was concerned
at first that 90 second exposures would overexpose bright stars but
that doesn't seem to be the case, there is still color in them.
A Ferruginous Hawk from yesterday.
American Pipit standing on Asian Clam shells by an irrigation ditch.
In this day of the internet I suppose I could convince some people that this is a natural
one-legged owl. It certainly looks like it has only one leg, dead center. But it isn't.
I'm used to seeing Burrowing Owls in prairie dog holes, where they enter vertically.
Here, the holes are in the side of irrigation ditches and they enter horizontally.
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