Close up view taken a few minutes before the family portrait to the right.

This evening was the clearest of the few days I was able to see the comet. And Saturn (center top), Venus (super bright object lower right), and Leonard (just above and between the first and second poles from the left) formed a very nice triangle portrait. Click here for a labeled version of the photo.

I was able to photograph the comet a few more times before it began its departure away from Earth and our solar system for ever. On this day, it was actually visible to the naked eye for a shot period of time--not that you could tell it was a comet, but it was brighter than the nearby stars as it approached the horizon about an hour after sunset.

Nothing like last year's Comet Neowise, Comet Leonard is now in our solar neighborhood for the next few weeks. Only about as bright as Jupiter's Galilean moons, the comet is seen here near the star, d Boötis (center of image). This is a 30-second exposure using my equatorial/star tracker and fully zoomed in on my Tamron 600 mm lens.

A mere 21 hours after taking photos of the lunar eclipse, I captured the Station on its half second transits across the nearly full Moon in this 4 image composite as seen from Hanover Courthouse Park, VA.

This close-up, 2.5 second exposure shows the partial lunar eclipse as seen from the Manassas Battlefield in the nearby starfield.

The partial lunar eclipse as seen from the Manassas Battlefield, with the 14th Brooklyn Monument in the foreground.

On a 4 minute trek rising from the south-west horizon, the International Space Station as seen from Parkgate Drive in Nokesville, Va. This 14 image composite captures it passing by Venus (lighting up the cloud in the bottom right), Saturn (in the cloud, Center), and Jupiter (brightest object) before disappearing in the Earth's shadow. The clouds and ground were being illuminated by the nearly full Moon that was out of the image to the left.

A little late afternoon, Veterans Day relaxation just after sunset and captured The following morning, I captured the airliner as it passed just below the Moon as seen from my driveway in Bristow, VA.