Penasco Blanco, New Mexico

I photographed the pictographs associated with Penasco Blanco while visiting archaeological sites in the Southwest USA with David Massey during Summer of 1979. My images are "adequate". Thanks for Meghan Murphy and Michael Radford for high quality digital images that I have processed with the DStretch program. Thank you to David Massey for sharing the adventure, especially at Fajada Butte, in 1979. I have put "comet" and "supernova" in quotation marks because I am fully aware that there are critics of these identifications. I am very open to the idea that the pictographs represent a comet and a supernova!

1979, David Massey looks up at the "supernova" pictograph at Penasco Blanco, 1979.

Photograph of the "supernova panel" at Penasco Blanco in 1979, photographed with Kodachrome slide film.

Meghan Murph'sy digital image of the "supernova panel" at Penasco Blanco taken July 2020.

DStretch processing with filer YXX of the "supernova panel" that brings out the lower "comet" pictograph. digital image by Meghan Murphy.

Telephoto image by Michael Radford for the "comet" pictograph below the "supernova" pictograph panel near the ruins of Penasco Blanco.

DStretch analysis with filter IDS of the telephoto image taken by Michael Radford of the "comet" near the ruins of Penasco Blanco.

Penasco Blanco by Meghan Murphy, 2020

Webpage constructed by Prof. Michael Fuller 26 July 2020