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NaBloPoMo2022 : Snow!

Posted on Wed November 9, 2022 by Ms. Jen

The last two days of rain in SoCal has produced some snow on the local LA area mountains and a good deal of snow on California’s North-South spine, the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Today I drove from SoCal to the Eastern Sierras and here is…

Tidbits for Your Weekend

Posted on Sat March 18, 2017Fri April 7, 2017 by Ms. Jen

I have been collecting links for about a month now, some of these you may have already seen but enjoy the ones you have not yet read:

Embrace the Blur : A One Day Drive to Arizona and Back Again

Posted on Sun November 6, 2016Mon November 7, 2016 by Ms. Jen

Sun. 11.06.16 – Today including a whirlwind, blur of a drive out to Arizona and back home to Huntington Beach in one day! The madness was more than just an opportunity to spend $36 on gas; I was on a mission to pick up…

The Pre-Dawn Waning Crescent Moon Conjunct Mars and Jupiter, with Venus and Regulus

Posted on Fri October 9, 2015Sat October 10, 2015 by Ms. Jen

Fri 10.09.15 – Yesterday morning we had a pre-dawn cloudy conjunction of the waning crescent moon with Venus, this morning’s pre-dawn show was the Moon in a triangle with Mars and Jupiter.

Last Night’s Sky

Posted on Thu May 28, 2015Thu May 28, 2015 by Ms. Jen

Thurs 05.28.15 – Last evening just before 9pm, I took myself to the dock at the La Paz County Park near the Buckskin Fire station to take photos of Venus and Jupiter and various stars & constellations in the very last bits of twilight….

Lumia Conversations Interviews Ms. Jen in ‘Out of this World’

Posted on Sat January 24, 2015Sat January 24, 2015 by Ms. Jen

Microsoft’s Lumia Conversations interviewed me this last week about my love of mobile photography and my quest to take photos of the Moon, planets, and some stars with my camera phone in an article entitled ‘Out of this world: Meet Jenifer Hanen, astrophotographer‘. This…

Moon rising over Gecko Pad, Glamis

Posted on Fri December 27, 2013 by Ms. Jen

Sun 12.22.13 – Photo of the Moon rising over trailers at Glamis sand dunes Gecko Pad campground taken by Ms. Jen with her Nikon D800 with a Nikon 50mm f/1.4G lens at 9:54pm. Double click on image for lightbox.

Orion, as seen by my Nokia Lumia 1020

Posted on Thu December 26, 2013Mon January 19, 2015 by Ms. Jen

Photo of the Orion constellation taken by Ms. Jen with her Nokia Lumia 1020. Sun 12.22.13 – As most of the regular readers of this blog know, I am forever trying to push the boundaries of what a camera phone can do in terms…