Bonbons of science and skepticism

M20 – The Trifid Nebula taken with the Prime Focus Camera on the 30-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory in 1998 (AASTRA participants took the images and then I combined them into the image you see here).

Mammatus clouds in Texas
I took this photo after some rough weather a few years back. They weren’t as bumpy as classic mammatus clouds anymore at this point, but still pretty cool looking.

Amelia Earhart’s Lockheed Vega. National Air & Space Museum (downtown). September 2006.

Galaxy M81 in Ursa Major taken with the Prime Focus Camera on the 30-inch telescope at McDonald Observatory in 1998 (AASTRA participants took the images and then I combined them into the image you see here).