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Launches
- Launch of JCSAT-16 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 FT rocket – August 13, 2016
- Launch of WGS-7 on a Delta IV rocket – July 23, 2015
- Launch of NROL-37 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket – June 11, 2016
- Launch of NROL-37 on a Delta IV Heavy rocket – June 11, 2016
- Launch of CRS-7 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 FT rocket – June 28, 2015
- Launch of SES-10 on a SpaceX Falcon 9 FT rocket – March 30, 2017 This is the first reflight of an orbital class booster in history
- Launch of ASPCA-6 on a Delta IV rocket – August 18, 2016
- Launch of GPS 2F-10 on an Atlas V rocket – July 15, 2015
Eclipses and Transits
- Annular solar eclipse sequence – May 20, 2012
- Transit of Mercury – May 9, 2016
- Lunar eclipse at totality – October 8, 2014
- ISS transiting the sun – June 11, 2014
- The ring of fire
- Transit of Venus – June 5, 2012
- Lunar eclipse sequence – October 8, 2014
- Second contact during the annular solar eclipse of May 20, 2012
Astrophotography
- Star Trails behind the Wild Horses Monument
- The center of the Milky Way behind Delicate Arch
- Milky Way above Valle de la Muerte
- The Milky Way sets behind the VLT as the moon rises
- Galactic center through Southern Cross above Chile
- VLT Auxiliary telescope and the Milky Way
- Star Trails over Double Arch
- Milky Way rising above La Residencia
- Night sky behind fallen tree on Mauna Kea
- Auxiliary telescopes beneath the Magellanic Clouds
- Horizon to horizon – the center of our galaxy
- Unit Telescope 4 at the Paranal Observatory in Chile
- Stars shine off Reflection Lake in Mr. Rainier National Park
- Orion Nebula as captured from my back yard
- The milky way rising behind the tufa towers of Mono Lake, CA
- The Large Magellanic Cloud as captured from the Atacama Desert, Chile
- The night sky hanging over Half Dome, Yosemite National Park
- Widefield image of the galactic center as captured from the Atacama Desert, Chile
- Moon – January 22, 2013
Northern Lights
- Brilliantly bright aurora over Fairbanks, AK
- Auroras at moonset
- Beautiful red auroras over Fairbanks, AK
- Colorful aurora over Fairbanks, AK
- The sky fills with bands of auroras
- Aurora swirling overhead in Fairbanks, AK
- Aurora borealis and the setting moon
- Aurora Apocalypse
Houston
- Houston skyline by night
- Be Someone
- Downtown Houston, TX from above
- Houston sunrise
- Downtown skyline of Houston lighting up the clouds at night
- Nearly full moon rising behind the skyline of downtown Houston, TX
- Misty skyline
- Houston Water Wall and Williams Tower
Nature
- A fallen tree atop Sentinel Dome in Yosemite National Park. This tree was photographed in a famous image by Ansel Adams while it when it was still standing
- Waterfall in the Columbia River Gorge
- The famous Subway of Zion National Park
- The tail fluke of a humpback whale near Icy Straight Point, AK
- Yosemite Valley lit up by the setting sun
- Angels Landing as viewed from Scout Lookout, Zion National Park
- Silver Creek flows through the deep green of the Pacific Northwest
- The Wave formation in Coyote Buttes North
- Sunset on El Capitan, Yosemite National Park
- Glass frog perched on a leaf in Costa Rica’s Corvocado National Park
- Sunset at the westernmost point in the continental USA, Ozette Point
- The Watchman stands behind autumn leaves in Zion National Park
- Moraine Lake in Banff NP
- Sunrise in Mr. Rainier National Park
- Zion Narrows
- A mother king penguin feeds her baby at St. Andrews Bay, South Georgia Island
- Crater Lake National Park
- A gentoo penguin preparing to jump into the freezing Antarctic water
- The striking colors of The Wave in Coyote Buttes North
- A chunk of the Hubbard Glacier calves into to Disappointment Bay – Alaska
- San Pedro de Atacama, Chile
- King Penguin watching over the long abandoned Grytviken whaling station on South Georgia Island
- The sun just barely still above the mountains at Baker Lake, Banff National Park
- Light trickling through the narrow slot of Upper Antelope Canyon
- Lenticular cloud over Denali – Alaska
- Bryce Amphitheater, Bryce Canyon National Park
- Small waves wash through the rocks of Second Beach in Olympia National Park
- The brilliant blue waters of Peyto Lake
- Lynx Lake, AK
- Delicate Arch at sunset
- Red fox walking through the snow
- Tree barely staying upright in Redwood National Park
- Christine Falls, Mt. Rainier National Park
- An orca breaching in the Straight of Juan de Fuca
- Archangel Falls, Zion National Park
- Upper Antelope Canyon
- Orca surfacing in the Straight of Juan de Fuca
- A hummingbird coming in for a drink