Image Gallery for May, 2007
Image Gallery for April, 2007
Edge-On Galaxy NGC 4565
This image was taken with an 8″ F/4 Schmidt-Newtonian telescope. 32×6 minute exposures @ ISO 800 were used.
M51 Spiral Galaxy
One of my better M51 images from back in the day.
Image Gallery for March, 2007
The Owl Nebula & M98 Galaxy
This was taken with my Meade SN-8 and a modified Canon 350XT. I have three detail views from this. Here’s a close-up of the Owl Nebula. Here’s the detail view of M98. Finally, I have a detail view of a compact galaxy group called, Hickson 50. Those smudges of light are galaxies that are over 2 billion light-years away!
Image Gallery for February, 2007
Image Gallery for January, 2007
Milky Way in Sagittarius
What can you image with just a camera with a wide angle lens and a tripod? The Milky Way, that’s what! I just love taking images like this. I was in the process of upgrading my telescope mount and had taken my C-8 off the old mount and moved it to a new one. Unfortunately, I was lacking the hand-paddle/computer for the new mount and I could not do any imaging with it. Not to be stopped by a little problem like that I used my camera on a tripod and obtained the image above.
M64, The Black Eye Galaxy
This image of the Black Eye galaxy was one of my better ones taken with my Celestron C8 that I’ve been having since 1983. It won a contest on the astro forums I frequent back in 2006.