North
American Nebula:
Taken August, 2010. This image was
taken with a Canon T2i digital camera (18 M pixels!) set to 6400
ASA. A Tamron 70-210mm f/2.8 lens was used and set to about
72mm. The camera was mounted on an inexpensive equitorial
mount, and the exposure was 20 seconds. This is a great
combination for very wide field astrophotography (see below). |
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| Also taken in August 2010
with the Canon T2i, this wide field image was taken with an 18mm
f/3.5 lens. Exposure time was 30 seconds at 6400 ASA.
The Andromeda nebula (M-31) is clearly visable as marked. |
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NGC-7293, the Helix Nebula.
Imaged near Ft. Davis, TX - August 2009.
This image and the image below were taken with a Meade
DSI-II for L and DSI-c for the RGB. A f/3.3 focal reducer was also
used. |
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| M-16, the Eagle Nebula.
Imaged near Ft. Davis, TX - August 2009. |
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| Close up of the central
portion of M16. This was taken using the f/6.3 focal reducer. |
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Jupiter with moons Europa,
Ganymede and Io. Imaged near Ft. Davis, TX -
August 15, 2009.
Imaged with Philips SPC900NC
webcam and processed with Registax and Photoshop CS3. |
 8-16-2009
- red spots |
Neptune and its' moon
Triton, imaged near Ft. Davis, TX - August 2009. Imaged with
Philips SPC900NC webcam and processed with Registax and Photoshop
CS3. This was my first image of the blue planet Neptune!
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Uranus was also imaged, but
its' moons were too dim to see. Not very exciting, but also the
first image of this planet.
Seeing was not good enough to
use a Barlow lens for any of these shots (Jupiter, Neptune or
Uranus). The webcam was used with the Meade 8" LX200. |
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| M-64 ("Black Eye nebula") photographed on
5/18/2009 using DSI-2 pro for "L" and DSI-c for color. Twenty six
20 second "L" images were captured, preprocessed and stacked using
Nebulosity-2. Final image processing was with PhotoShop CS3. |
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| Horsehead with DSI-II pro camera on 2-22-09. |
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