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astrorich.bsky.social

Retired project manager living in Houston, Texas. Nature photographer, amateur astronomer, birder, music lover, movie fan, animal lover, Progressive in a Red State, happily married, grandfather. All photos are my own unless otherwise stated.

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submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Happy Valentines Day #birds #photography #wildlifephotography #nature #greatblueherons #herons #valentinesday

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Great Blue Herons Build Their Nest I’m actually following three different nests that are all close neighbors to one another. Here’s one pair trying to find the perfect fit for this new stick. #birds #wildlifephotography #photography #greatblueherons

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

Great Blue Herons It’s only February but these two have paired up and started a nest. I hope to follow their progress and photograph the chicks. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #greatblueherons #photography

submitted 13 days ago • 7 comments

Great Blue Heron Having a Moment Not sure what this bird was up to! It’s mating season already here close to the Gulf Coast so the courtships and nest building has begun. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #greatblueherons

submitted 14 days ago • 4 comments

🔭 Comet G3 ATLAS Setting over a Chilean Hill Video Credit & Copyright: Gabriel Muñoz apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap25020...

submitted 19 days ago • 1 comment

Oregon Squirrel Oddly enough, on a trip to photograph the magnificent Oregon coast, my favorite shot was this squirrel against the turquoise sea. The lesson: look around, don’t get locked into your expectations. #wildlifephotography #photography #wildlife #Oregon #nature

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Milky Way and Perseid Meteors #stars #astrophotography #milkyway

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The Pinwheel Galaxy, M101 This magnificent galaxy with roughly 1 trillion stars is 21 million light years distant. Look close at the fuzzy spots nearby, they’re other galaxies. The Universe is swarming with galaxies. #stars #astrophotography #nightsky #galaxies

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

NGC2174, the Monkey Head Nebula in Orion. 6400 light years away. Shot this recently from my light-polluted backyard thanks to some specialized filters. 3hrs, 50min total exposure time. #stars #astronomy #space #nebula

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Great Horned Owls, family portrait Taken a few years ago at Brazos Bend State Park outside of Houston, Texas. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #photography #owls

submitted 35 days ago • 2 comments

Zooming in on the Heart Nebula. 7500 light years away in Cassiopeia. I shot this with special nebula filters so the red shows glowing hydrogen gas, the green is oxygen and the blue is sulphur. #stars #astrophotography #photography

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Sandhill Cranes by the Thousand Nebraska Sandhill crane migration. Landing on the Platte River. An awesome sight not to be missed. Dr Jane Goodall calls it “one of Earth’s great migrations”. #wildlifephotography #birds #nature #photography

submitted 49 days ago • 2 comments

Sandhill Crane Landing If you love birds, you’ll want to see the sandhill crane Spring migration in Nebraska. Up to half a million birds gather there and overnight along the Platte River. One of Earth’s “great migrations”. #wildlife #birds #photography #nature #cranes

submitted 49 days ago • 1 comment

Happy New Year

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The famous Horsehead Nebula in Orion #stars #astrophotography #astronomy #wintersky

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Great Egret Windy Day Mating display feathers are getting ruffled for this egret on a windy day in early Spring. #birds #wildlifephotography #photography #nature #wildlife

submitted 57 days ago • 2 comments

Great Blue Heron Love it when the GBHs put on their mating feathers in the Spring. #birds #wildlife #wildlifephotography #photography #naturw

submitted 58 days ago • 7 comments

Zooming in on the Milky Way On the left, the North American and Pelican Nebula taken last Summer. On the right, a crop of just the upper left corner of the first image. All those little speckles are individual stars in our galaxy and most of them have planets. #stars #astronomy #photography

submitted 63 days ago • 0 comments

Crested Caracara I’m always excited to see one of these birds. Their range is mostly in Mexico and Central/South America. Captured this image at Anahuac NWR on the Gulf Coast, not far from Galveston, TX. #birds #wildlifephotography #nature #wildlife #birdsofbluesky

submitted 65 days ago • 3 comments

NGC253 One of my favorite galaxies because of all of the dark nebula visible in the disk. Located in the southern constellation Sculptor, it’s not easy to see from most of the US. 11M light years away. #stars #astronomy #astrophotography #photography #galaxies

submitted 66 days ago • 0 comments