My first photos of the Zodiacal Light, this was on the road to Crown King, AZ... At the top of the sky, the Zodiacal Light reached up to the Pleiades and the Milky Way above Agua Fria National Monument Astronomers say it's sunlight reflecting off dust grains in the inner solar system. The very dust left over from the process that created our Earth and the other planets 4.5 billion years ago.

In a recent star observing run, I set up my camera on the tracking mount while it was still light to make sure everything would be ready to go. Soon after this bird kept flying around my car, it looked like a cross between an owl and a hawk. It was looking for dinner and I just didn't have enough time to take my camera off of the mount to capture him. He was beautiful, I have never seen a bird like him in the desert. After I got home I decided to look up what kind of bird