Picture-A-Week-2015 - Week 03

[pierces]

Pictures taken between Monday, January 12 and Sunday, January 18.

[shootr]

Mission San Xavier del Bac (South of Tucson, AZ - on the way home from the copper mines in Green Valley - seemed like a good detour on the way home today)

 

 

 

[GoofyontheHiSeas]

Drove up to Santa Barbara this morning. Beautiful day.

 

[shootr]

Tried to capture Comet Lovejoy tonight - just barely with the 200mm:

 

The little green fuzzy just left and below center

 

Blown up a little with some 'shopping

 

Eke'd out the Orion Nebula while I was at it:

 

And the Seven Sisters (Pleiades):

[sparky-elpaso]

Great shots of the comet - now I know what to look for. I've been wanting to look for it but we've been socked in with clouds the past few days. Did you go outside of town or to an area with fewer lights? Our neighborhood has lots of street lights so I think we may go to a park a little ways away where there are fewer lights.

[shootr]

I'm in the middle of town with lights, but from the backyard with binoculars you can define it 100% from the surrounding stars. Darker is better though, especially for your night vision to maximize.

 

 

This is a decent map to help.

 

Basically look in the east and find Orions belt. Follow that up (higher in the sky) past the brightest star Aldebaran and up to a fuzzy mass that is the Pleiades. About a fist's width to the right is about where to look. Each number is the date of where it should be.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Mission San Xavier del Bac (South of Tucson, AZ - on the way home from the copper mines in Green Valley - seemed like a good detour on the way home today)

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely

[Krazy Kruizers]

Drove up to Santa Barbara this morning. Beautiful day.

 

 

 

The reflections are so sharp.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Tried to capture Comet Lovejoy tonight - just barely with the 200mm:

 

The little green fuzzy just left and below center

 

Blown up a little with some 'shopping

 

Eke'd out the Orion Nebula while I was at it:

 

And the Seven Sisters (Pleiades):

 

 

Great shot.

Too cloudy around here most of the time for shots like that.

[Krazy Kruizers]

Went out for lunch today.

Ice on the river with sea gulls floating on larger junks:

River barge:

 

 

Ice on the front of one of the barges:

[shootr]

Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix:

 

 

 

[shootr]

Rose garden at the community college:

[dileep]

 

 

[dileep]

 

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

Lots of beautiful pictures.

[pierces]

Long shot of an Acacia tree in the zebra enclosure at the LA Zoo. It appears that these trees are very fond of their leaves.

 

Pointy Tree

 

 

Dave

[PurpleHays]

I think I'd stay away from them!

[Krazy Kruizers]

Long shot of an Acacia tree in the zebra enclosure at the LA Zoo. It appears that these trees are very fond of their leaves.

 

Pointy Tree

 

 

Dave

 

 

I sure wouldn't want to get close to that tree. Those spikes look dangerous.

[Jack_Tar]

Long shot of an Acacia tree in the zebra enclosure at the LA Zoo. It appears that these trees are very fond of their leaves.

 

Pointy Tree

 

Probably toothpicks for the Zebra then :eek:

[boeckli]

A butterfly finally sat still long enough ...

 

[Krazy Kruizers]

Japanese Friendship Garden in Phoenix:

 

 

 

 

 

Lovely park.

[duncan449]

[hamacting]

This was really a bit of a mistake, but when I got it home I quite liked it - the Night Swan is on the prowl...

 

2015-01-17 (Day 017) Helix Night Swan by atp, on Flickr