The pictures on this site were all captured from my driveway in the middle of the New Jersey suburbs. Street lamps. Sky glow. Light pollution. They may all conspire to make suburban skies less than ideal for astronomy. But that doesn't lessen the thrill you feel when seeing the majestic rings of Saturn or the fireball of the Hercules Star Cluster from your own backyard.
All of these images were taken with either a webcam or an astronomical CCD camera through ordindary amateur telescopes. It always amazes me to think how far across space and time the photons that make up these images have traveled only to end their journey inside my telescope. I am never less than awestruck, sitting in my yard late at night, as I watch these images emerge on my laptop computer screen for the very first time.
I hope you enjoy these pictures and that they help you, too, feel that same connection with the universe I felt when I first captured them.