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Jupiter. Notice that sunlight is coming from the right.

(Astrovid 2000 CCD video camera thru 6" Newtonian, 9 best images of 1800, stacked with Astrostack)

M51: The Whilrpool galaxy w/NGC 5195 above. M51's dark dust lane is silhouetted against the smaller galaxy, showing that it is in front of it's neighbor.

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

Enlargement, description, & chart (207Kb)

The North American Nebula & the Great Rift, in Cygnus the swan. You are looking down our arm of the galaxy.

"Thee, silver Swan, who silent, can o'erpass? A hundred with seven radiant stars compose. The graceful form: amid the lucid stream Of the fair Milky Way."     Eudosia

(50mm lens on 35mm camera mounted to scope tube. 40 minute exposure on Ektachrome 100. Taken at Nebraska Star Party, 1999)

Sagitarrius, looking toward the center of our Galaxy, the Milky Way.

"Midst golden stars he stands refulgent now, And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow."     Ovid

(50mm lens on 35mm camera)

Orion rising over Hendersonville. Could somebody turn down those lights, please?

"Orion with his glittering belt & sword, Gilded since time has been, while time shall be."   Lucy Larcom

(50mm lens on 35mm camera on barn door tracker)

Moon occulting Saturn, Dec 28, 2001. It will happen only once more for North America before 2014.

(Nikon CoolPix digital camera, eyepiece projection thru Celestron C8+)

Adjust your monitor so the white is white, the black is black, and there is an even gray scale between.
2 views of Jupiter: Left: Great Red Spot. 7 images stacked. Right: with it's moon Io. 10 images stacked.

(Astrovid 2000, images stacked w/Astrostack)

Jupiter: The moon Io is visible as a small white circle to left of center, and it's shadow on Jupiter's cloud tops is to the right of center. Imaged from Winter Star Party, Big Pine Key, Fl., Feb, 2002 thru a Celestron GPS-11 scope onto a home camcorder.

Saturn: Cassini's division, planet's shadow on rings, and temperate belt visible.

(Astrovid 2000, 30 images stacked w/Astrostack)

Saturn color image from Winter Star Party, Big Pine Key, Fl., Feb. 2002 thru a Celestron GPS-11 onto a home camcorder.

The Swan Nebula (M17) in Sagittarius, 6,800 light years away, is a glowing cloud of hydrogen gas. (The galactic center, which is in the same general direction, is 27,000 light years away.)

Enlargement & Details

The famous Crab Nebula (M1) in Cancer is the expanding debris shell of an 1054AD supernova.

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Horsehead Nebula in Orion is a cloud of dust blocking the light of IC434 beyond.

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Helix Nebula in Aquarius, less than 300 light years away, is the closest planetary nebula and therefore large in apparent size, but dim. It can be seen thru binoculars from a dark site but is challanging thru a telescope unless an O-III filter is used.

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Flame Nebula is immediately east of the left star in Orion's belt and is part of the great gas and dust complex that covers much of the constellation. (The large size of the nebula wouldn't fit on the CCD photographic chip.)

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

Lunar crater Copernicus, 56 miles in diameter. The ridgetops are over 1.3 miles above crater floor and 0.6 miles above the surrounding terrain. The central peaks are 0.75 miles above the crater bottom. The terraces were created by rebounding shockwaves from the 20,000,000 megaton asteroid impact.

(SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Dumbbell (M27), in Vulpecula, is one of the largest and brightest planetary nebula and can be easily seen thru binoculars as a diffuse fuzzy spot.

Enlargement &Details

The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) in Canes Venatici, 37,000,000 light years away. Magnitude 8.4.

(ST8E thru LX200 at f6.3 in Alt/Az mode, 2x binning, no guiding. 19x 19 second exposures aligned and added with CCDSoft.)

Dumbbell Nebula (M27) again, captured thru the same scope as the image above but with a different CCD camera and processing.

Imaged with an SBIG ST-10XME, CFW-8 Filter Wheel, guided by the AO-7 at 5.2 focal ratio. Used a Hutech LPS filter. LRGB: L=60min, R=15min, G=12min, B=18min. Lucy Richardson Deconvolution on L channel. Combined and aligned in Maxim DL

Enlargement, less compression (248Kb)
Asteroid 1994KW4 flyby of earth, imaged in May 2001 with a 10" LX-200 and SBIG-TV. Imaged was made just as sunrise made the stars fade out. The 4 frames cover a 10 minute period. The asteroid's image is streaked due to it's movement during exposure as the camera is tracking the stars.

Moonbow thru the Pleiades. 'nuff said.


Jupiter. Notice that sunlight is coming from the right. (Astrovid 2000 CCD video camera thru 6" Newtonian, 9 best images of 1800, stacked with Astrostack)	M51: The Whilrpool galaxy w/NGC 5195 above. M51's dark dust lane is silhouetted against the smaller galaxy, showing that it is in front of it's neighbor. (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)
Enlargement, description, & chart (207Kb)
The North American Nebula & the Great Rift, in Cygnus the swan. You are looking down our arm of the galaxy. "Thee, silver Swan, who silent, can o'erpass? A hundred with seven radiant stars compose. The graceful form: amid the lucid stream Of the fair Milky Way." Eudosia (50mm lens on 35mm camera mounted to scope tube. 40 minute exposure on Ektachrome 100. Taken at Nebraska Star Party, 1999)	Sagitarrius, looking toward the center of our Galaxy, the Milky Way. "Midst golden stars he stands refulgent now, And thrusts the Scorpion with his bended bow." Ovid (50mm lens on 35mm camera)

Orion rising over Hendersonville. Could somebody turn down those lights, please? "Orion with his glittering belt & sword, Gilded since time has been, while time shall be." Lucy Larcom (50mm lens on 35mm camera on barn door tracker)	Moon occulting Saturn, Dec 28, 2001. It will happen only once more for North America before 2014. (Nikon CoolPix digital camera, eyepiece projection thru Celestron C8+)

Adjust your monitor so the white is white, the black is black, and there is an even gray scale between.	2 views of Jupiter: Left: Great Red Spot. 7 images stacked. Right: with it's moon Io. 10 images stacked. (Astrovid 2000, images stacked w/Astrostack)

Jupiter: The moon Io is visible as a small white circle to left of center, and it's shadow on Jupiter's cloud tops is to the right of center. Imaged from Winter Star Party, Big Pine Key, Fl., Feb, 2002 thru a Celestron GPS-11 scope onto a home camcorder.	Saturn: Cassini's division, planet's shadow on rings, and temperate belt visible. (Astrovid 2000, 30 images stacked w/Astrostack)


	Saturn color image from Winter Star Party, Big Pine Key, Fl., Feb. 2002 thru a Celestron GPS-11 onto a home camcorder.

The Swan Nebula (M17) in Sagittarius, 6,800 light years away, is a glowing cloud of hydrogen gas. (The galactic center, which is in the same general direction, is 27,000 light years away.) Enlargement & Details	The famous Crab Nebula (M1) in Cancer is the expanding debris shell of an 1054AD supernova. (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Horsehead Nebula in Orion is a cloud of dust blocking the light of IC434 beyond. (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)	The Helix Nebula in Aquarius, less than 300 light years away, is the closest planetary nebula and therefore large in apparent size, but dim. It can be seen thru binoculars from a dark site but is challanging thru a telescope unless an O-III filter is used. (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Flame Nebula is immediately east of the left star in Orion's belt and is part of the great gas and dust complex that covers much of the constellation. (The large size of the nebula wouldn't fit on the CCD photographic chip.) (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)	Lunar crater Copernicus, 56 miles in diameter. The ridgetops are over 1.3 miles above crater floor and 0.6 miles above the surrounding terrain. The central peaks are 0.75 miles above the crater bottom. The terraces were created by rebounding shockwaves from the 20,000,000 megaton asteroid impact. (SBIG-TV thru 10" SCT, processed w/MaxIm DL)

The Dumbbell (M27), in Vulpecula, is one of the largest and brightest planetary nebula and can be easily seen thru binoculars as a diffuse fuzzy spot. Enlargement &Details	The Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) in Canes Venatici, 37,000,000 light years away. Magnitude 8.4. (ST8E thru LX200 at f6.3 in Alt/Az mode, 2x binning, no guiding. 19x 19 second exposures aligned and added with CCDSoft.)

Dumbbell Nebula (M27) again, captured thru the same scope as the image above but with a different CCD camera and processing. Imaged with an SBIG ST-10XME, CFW-8 Filter Wheel, guided by the AO-7 at 5.2 focal ratio. Used a Hutech LPS filter. LRGB: L=60min, R=15min, G=12min, B=18min. Lucy Richardson Deconvolution on L channel. Combined and aligned in Maxim DL Enlargement, less compression (248Kb)	Asteroid 1994KW4 flyby of earth, imaged in May 2001 with a 10" LX-200 and SBIG-TV. Imaged was made just as sunrise made the stars fade out. The 4 frames cover a 10 minute period. The asteroid's image is streaked due to it's movement during exposure as the camera is tracking the stars.
Moonbow thru the Pleiades. 'nuff said.