Milky Way in Sagittarius

Milky Way Portrait View
Milky Way Portrait View

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.

The Milky Way From My Backyard

The Milky Way From My Backyard in 2005
The Milky Way From My Backyard in 2005

This was taken way back in 2005 with my then, brand new Canon Digital Rebel (the old 300D,) which was my first digital SLR camera.    It was a 25 second exposure at ISO 400 with a 28-70 Sigma zoom lens set at the lowest focal length and ratio.

Since this image was taken, the trees have grown considerably and the light pollution is twice as bad as it used to be.  Oh, well.  At least I still have the original RAW image files to play with.  lol

Comet Hale-Bopp on April 6th, 1997

Comet Hale-Bopp on April 6th, 1997

Comet Hale-Bopp in April 1997. This image was taken with a piggy-backed Nikon FE2 film camera and Kodak Royal Gold 1000 film and a Nikor 300mm F/4 lens. Exposure was about 10 minutes.

I have a quite a few images from back then.  A few more are below:

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Images of Comets, Nebulae, Galaxies and Star Clusters