StargazerRon
Highlights from Santa Barbara Zoo Lights
ZooLights returned to the Santa Barbara Zoo for its fourth spectacular run on November 12, 2025 through January 11, 2026, proving once again why it is a local holiday favorite. Guests stepped into an immersive glowing wonderland featuring more than 50,000 LED bulbs and…
Clearing the Storm Brought a Colorful Sunset
As the first week of 2026 unfolded, the Central Coast emerged from a storm system that had lasted many days and transformed the local landscape. Following partly cloudy and gray skies, the afternoon of January 6, 2026 brought a clearing storm leaving crisp and…
Comet Lemmon Seen from Santa Barbara
Comet C/2025 A6 (Lemmon) is now making its closest pass to Earth. It should grow brighter and be visible over the next week — it won’t be seen again for another 1300 years. While not as luminous as last year's…
SpaceX Rocket Launch Over Santa Barbara with Harvest Moon
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night, October 7, deploying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff occurred at 8:54 p.m. from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, with the rocket…
SpaceX Launch Successful Saturday Morning from Vandenberg
Update by Stargazer Ron On September 6 at 11:06 AM SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East at from Vandenberg Space Force Base. It was the 20th flight for this first…
Glowing Photos of Space X’s Tuesday Launch
As reported in Edhat, on September 2 at 8:51 p.m. a Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites. It looked a bit like a sunset over More Mesa a minute later (see above photo). Then a minute after that, a closeup:…
Viewing The International Space Station from Santa Barbara
As reported in Edhat on July 22, the International Space Station (ISS), was scheduled to make a number of passes over Santa Barbara County in late July. The ISS is a monumental achievement in engineering and diplomacy, stands as the…
International Space Station Sails Over Goleta
As per the July 5 article by macpuzl, the International Space Station (ISS) will be quite active in July, see. On Monday, July 7th, I captured a photo at Goleta Pier between 10:17 PM and 10:29 PM, featuring three distinct…