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The Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn was … the day before and obscured by clouds. But the next evening was beautiful, and @morriganlynn and I celebrated the event in the moonlight with this image up on Bear River Ridge Road. Jupiter and Saturn are small on the horizon in front of her, almost touching each other. I could see that Saturn had finally overtaken and passed Jupiter and was now to Jupiter’s right. Humboldt County, California. Dec. 22, 2020.

North Coast Night Lights: Conjunction - Saturn Overtakes Jupiter

by David Wilson on January 4, 2021 at 11:59AM

Racing around the sun like slot cars on an elliptical track, Earth was on an inside line and coming around fast. Jupiter and Saturn were in view ahead.

Over the Rainbow … Middle panel of the panorama, cropped to the Golden Ratio.

Over the Rainbow: A North Coast Fantasy

by David Wilson on December 14, 2020 at 12:22PM

I’ve been tripping around in the night light of California’s far North Coast for some time now. A lot of nighttime visions have piled up from many late outings, cold nights and wee early mornings.

One path leads to another … In late April, one must get up pretty early in the morning for a window like this one out into the Universe. Dawn is brightening the sky on the eastern horizon as the Galactic Core sweeps across the sky in a vain attempt to outrun the light of day in this view from a country road in Humboldt County, California. Photographed on April 24, 2020 at 04:55 a.m.

North Coast Night Lights: Visualize the Stars

by David Wilson on September 21, 2020 at 4:28PM

“Roads? Where we’re going, we don’t need — roads.” - Doc, Back to the Future II.

“Self Portrait with Perseid Meteors.” The lights of Eureka shine on the Pacific Coast beneath a pair of Perseid meteors in this composite of two images from a timelapse sequence taken during the Perseid meteor shower of 2020 from the hills of Humboldt County on Aug. 12.

Perseid Meteors 2020: A comet’s tale

by David Wilson on August 18, 2020 at 11:02AM

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North Coast Night Lights: Conjunction - Saturn Overtakes Jupiter

Over the Rainbow: A North Coast Fantasy

North Coast Night Lights: Visualize the Stars

Perseid Meteors 2020: A comet’s tale