Bode's Galaxy (M81) is the big spiral galaxy on the left; M82 is the irregular galaxy on the right. M82 is sometimes called the Cigar Galaxy, for its obvious resemblance to a cigar. ...

When life gives you lemons, you make lemonade, lemon pie, lemon juice. . . anything. When the night gives you moonlight, grab that glass of lemonade and take some normal pictures for once...

After having this nighttime lanscape of Colden Lake featured on North Country Public Radio's website (www.ncpr.org), a few requests for its camera settings have been posted in response. In this post, Tom Pruzenski offers not only his EXIF data for 'Azure,' he has also added a detailed description of the technique he has developed for his...

On Mt. Skylight, Frank, Chris and Tom decide to take a detour on the way back down. Some quick number crunching shows that Mt. Marcy's summit can be climbed in 90 mins., netting them an extra 100 points. Just then a parrot flies down telling them it's all a set-up and to go home now. Click here to go back to reality and read the story...