On April 2 the Artworks Gallery hosts a 6 p.m. talk and display by Scott Rosen
in Pine Mountain Village

Scott Rosen has loved stars since he was a young boy. “I was 8 years old when I became interested in astronomy,” he says. “My parents let me buy a book from the Book of the Month Club at school. I bought Peterson’s Field Guide to the Stars. It was an introduction to everything about astronomy.”

Now he spends many nights helping galaxies paint beautiful self-portraits in the dark.

The digital astrophotography images shown in these pages require hundreds of exposures, each several minutes long. These are digitally stacked together, filtered and processed, to develop all the elements of the star field into showing as vividly as possible, Rosen explains.

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On Saturday, April 2 at 6 p.m.
Scott Rosen will give a free talk
at the Artworks Community Gallery
in Pine Mountain Village
(16233 Pine Valley Lane, #203)

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About six years ago, Rosen began to work in earnest on his digital star projects from his home on a stunning hilltop in the Pine Mountain community.

Scott Rosen’s online gallery (AstronomersDoItIntheDark.com) is a showcase for his carefully crafted work. Now Rosen’s images are gaining attention.

By 2013 two had been selected as NASA Astronomy Picture of the Day. A dozen have been named…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

Photo captions:

Above: Flying Bat Nebula a.k.a. the hydrogen emission nebula, and the Squid Nebula a.k.a. the enigmatic region of oxygen emission; (above right) the Horsehead Nebula and M42

The Witch Head Nebula in Eridanus; (right) Brook, the Newfoundland, guarding Rosen’s telescope

North American and Pelican Nebulae; Below: Rosen at his telescope

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This is part of the April 1, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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