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The Milky Way
A vertical panorama showing 180 degrees of the MilkyWay from one horizon to the other. The galactic bulge is visible at the center of the photo.Annotated version available.
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The Pleiades, a Wide View
A wide field of M45: The Pleiades open cluster, one of the most beautiful sights in the night sky. The nebulosity around these stars is of a deep blue color and it gets denser near the star Merope,...
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Speeding Clouds at the Milky Way
The Milky Way rising in vertical orientation behind some cliffs. It was a very windy night so even in this short exposure the clouds show its motion across the sky.
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The Giants
The "gigantes" at El Chocón. The Magellan clouds are on the left, then the Milky Way and finally the Moon with its reflection on the lake. It's difficult to get both the Moon and the Magellan Clouds in...
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The Veil Supernova Remnant
About 8000 years ago a bright supernova exploded towards the Cygnus constellation, what we see today is the renmant of that celestial show. The wide field shows how the nebula has the shape of a cocoon...
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The Monster
Do you see an old guy or a monster face on the rock at the left side? A surreal landscape in the middle of the night at the Red Moon Valley in Neuquen, Argentina.
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Occultation and Earthshine
Venus and the three days old Moon after the occultation of September 8th 2013.
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Moon and Venus before the occultation
In The glow of twilight Venus shines very close to the Moon just after sunset.
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The Occultation of Venus
On September 8th, 2013 the Moon occulter Venus as seen from South America. The event started at 6:50pm just a few minutes after sunset still bright twilight. Venus emerged about one hour later from the...
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Half a Venus
Venus re-emerging with part of the planet behind the Moon and part of the planet already visible.
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M7, The Ptolomy Cluster
M7 is a very bright open cluster in Scorpius. Very close to the "Sting" formed by the bright stars Shaula and Lesath. Visible on the left of the photo.The cluster was discovered by Ptolomy and is...
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The Great Conjunction at Dusk
The 3 days old waxing crescent Moon with Earthshine and planet Venus as close as they can be after the occultation on September 8th 2013. The body of water is the Uruguay river. HDR panorama made from...
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Like Mars
The "Red Moon Valley" in Neuquen, Argentina features plenty of red rocks and soil making it look, in some way, like planet mars. This panorama shows the valley from the Magellan Clouds on the left to...
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The Helix, a Wide View
The Helix is one of the largest planetary nebulas in the sky so it's easy to see even in a wide field like this one. Formed after the death of a main sequence star like our Sun.
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A Tarantula Above the Mountains
One of the satellite galaxies of the Milky Way, the LMC is really big in the night sky of rural locations in the South Hemisphere. The Tarantula nebula is visible as a cyan spot inside the LMC, this is...
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The Hunter's Moon
The full Moon of October 2013 just after moonrise and 20 minutes later.The first photo shows the effect of atmospheric distortion making the moon look very red and egg-shaped. The second photo taken 20...
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Penumbral Eclipse of October 18th 2013
A very subtle penumbral eclipse hard to see with the naked eye but noticeable in photos. The first photo was taken during the maximum eclipse, the second photo once it was finished. Notice the upper...
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The Emu Eats the Fly
The dark Coalsack nebula and the bright star just on its border look like the head of a bird that is pointing directly to the "Dark Doodad" nebula in Musca. A strange scene in the southern Milky Way.
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Venus at Twilight
Venus before setting on the west, a star filter was used in front of the lens for the extra spikes.
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Venus Vists the Milky Way
Planet Venus at magnitude -4.6 visiting the Milky Way. The planet was just in the middle of the great rift next to the Lagoon and Trifid nebulas.This scene will repeat itself in 2021 as Venus comes...
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Conjunction at the Milky Way
The Moon and Venus at the Milky Way, just a few minutes after sunset with the sky not fully dark yet. Even with the blue sky the Milky way is visible and the position of the Moon and Venus was just a...
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Orion Widefield
A Widefield of the Orion constellation and Barnard's loop. The nebulosity around Meissa is also visible. At the top left the Witchhead nebula can be seen next to Rigel. At the center the great Orion...
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Moonset in Earth's Shadow
The Moon setting on the west just before sunrise, the horizon is dark because of Earth's own shadow, above Earth's shadow the "Belt of Venus" makes the sky look pink. The Moon looked really large...
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Spiral Arms of the Large Magellan Cloud
Our neighbor galaxy, the LMC, is not really an irregular galaxy,it has a marked central bar and two little spiral arms. One of those arms can be seen in this photo. It took some overprocessing to show...
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The Belt and M42
A very common framing of the Orion Belt and M42. The Running Man nebula is visible just next to M42 and at the Belt the Horsehead nebula and the Flame nebula are visible. I like the little splashes of...
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Moon and Butterflies
I took a photo of the setting moon and a photo of M6, the butterfly cluster and made them a double exposure. I don't particularly like double exposures but this was the only way to combine the very...
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Earth's Shadow
An infrared shot showing Earth's own shadow after sunset in a valley between too low hills. The darkening produced at the horizon by our planet's shadow is visible to the naked eye as a dark band. This...
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Nova Centauri 2013
A bright Nova in a very popular area of the sky for the south hemisphere observers, just next to Beta Centauri. Alpha and Beta Centauri are used as the "pointers" to the Southern Cross (Curx) and Beta...
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One of Many Hotels
The Pleiades, Taurus, Orion and Sirius align over the remains of one of the many hotels that used to thrive in Epecuen.
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Epecuen at Night
The summer sky above the remains of the Epecuen Village in Argentina. The Pleiades, Orion and Canis Major dominate the sky from left to right.
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Milky Way and Nova Centauri 2013
The southern summer Milky Way shining above the remains of Epecuen with Nova Centauri 2013 visible to the naked eye.
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Nova Centauri 2013
A second outburst brought the Nova close to mag 3 and easy to see with the naked eye even under the full Moon.
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Rho Forever
The molecular complex near Rho Ophiuchi and Antares. a Fanastic area of the sky combining emission, reflecting and dark nebulas in the middle of bright stars, multiple stars and globular clusters.
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Storm at Epecuen
A very quick and powerful thunder storm racing through the open field in Epecuen, Buenos Aires.
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The Moon on January 6th 2014
A waxing crescent Moon that looked beautiful in the sky after sunset.
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Milky Way Rising at the Sierras with a Meteor
The Milky Way at the Sierras, with the brightest area towards Sagitarius just rising above the mountains. A bright meteor just striked the area during the exposure.
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The Moon and Venus at Dusk
The Moon and planet Venus at its maximum brightness shining a few minutes after sunset.
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M45: The Pleiades
A wide field of the seven sisters: The Pleiades. The most famous open cluster in the sky surrounded by beautiful blue nebulosity.
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Almost an Aurora
An incredible view that really resembled a faint Aurora but it wasn't. The green display is produced by a strong case of Airglow a chemical luminiscence phenomena of the high atmosphere. M8, the Lagoon...
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Volcano
The milky way and a small mountain that looks like a volcano. From Patagonia, Argentina.Single shot.
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Orion's Belt
Alnilam, Alnitak and Mintaka surrounded by the Horsehead nebula, the Flame nebula and a lot of small reflection and emission nebulas. This area of the sky is so full of small details that each photo...
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Above the Mountains
The Milky Way archinv above the mountains as seen from a dark location. Single shot.
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Lagoon and Triffid
The Lagoon (M8) and Triffid (M20) nebulas in a wide angle mosaic (6 photos in a 3x2 mosaic). The trifid is a combination of reflection (blue), emission (red) and dark nebulas. The Lagoon is a huge...
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