Ajo, AZ
January 19, 2016
 


A Common Side-blotched Lizard, one of the few lizards I've seen this winter so far.

It hard to see what the Roadrunners are eating, they are so fast. Finally caught this one in action.

Comet Catalina. Last night, I got up at 2:30 AM, set up the Skytracker and waited for the moon to set. Then I could see the Comet Catalina, near the Big Dipper. I took a lot of photos but stacking them didn't do much good. The comet moved enough during the time I was shooting that the stacked photos showed its path.  This one is a single image, 30 second exposure, 250 mm focal length. Not a great photo, I've seen some much better ones. At least one of the tails is visible. Perhaps even more interesting is that there appears to be a distant galaxy visible in the lower left corner.
 

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