Send in your photos! I am sweating blood!
Two batches today: stars ‘n’ squirrels. First, the three star photos come from Tim Anderson. Click the photos to enlarge them:
NGC3372, the Carina Nebula and NGC3532, the Wishing Well Star Cluster
The Large Magellanic Cloud including NGC2070, the Tarantula Nebula
And squirrel photos from Mary Barbara Vance Wilson:
I hit the cute diurnal squirrel trifecta at Collier State Park in Klamath County, Oregon, earlier in September 14. Golden-mantled Ground Squirrels (Callopermophilus lateralis) are common sights in western parks. These were busy stashing food for the winter. They are often confused with chipmunks, which are smaller and have facial stripes.
The Yellow-Pine Chipmunk (Neotamias amoenus), one of the smallest chipmunks, were dashing so fast across the ground, up tree trunks, and over historic logging machinery that getting a photo was difficult.
The Douglas Squirrel (Tamiasciurus douglasii) is only about as big as the ground squirrels but lacks stripes except for a short bar on the side. It spends more time in the trees than the other two.
Excellent photos of the large and the small.
Beautiful, all of them! Thank you.
I’m sure these lovely pictures are not easy to obtain, most small mammals are kinda prone to dash or slither away quickly. I guess that is somehow for good evolutionary reasons.
All very good! Astrophotography is so very impressive to me. And Mary really knows her squirrels!
The massive and the tiny. Thanks for these great submissions.
Typo, should be “callospermophilus laterali.”