A different Crop
I thought it would be fun to take an older image, reprocess it, and crop into smaller sections that would put a new spin on a very commonly imaged object. Hope you like them. I won’t reveal what the object…
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North East Astronomy Forum 2014
NEAF 2014 was held April 12-13 in Suffern, NY and is a sponsored event put on by the Rockland Astronomy Club. This was my 3rd visit to NEAF. Here are a few pictures of the trade show:
4/8/2014 – Waxing Gibbous Moon
Playing around with a Stellarvue SVQ100 Astrograph with a Lumenera Lu070 monochrome video camera and a 5X Televue Powermate tonight. A quick stack and sharpen to see what I got. They need some more time processing but doesn’t look too…
NGC 2175 – The Monkey Head Close up Crop
Supernova in M82 Fades and Reddens
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First Luna of 2014
Working on a redesign of my imaging rig to incorporate an AP130EDT f/8 refractor for narrowfield imaging alongside the FSQ widefield setup. This was a test shot through the scope using an Apogee U8300 and Baader Ha filter to prevent…
Our Trip to Sugar Loaf Art Festival in Chantilly, Virginia
Being unemployed gives me a little more time to travel the countryside and give Bill Snyder a hand with his Astrophotography booth at some Art Festivals. The show ran Dec 13th-Dec 15th, thankfully indoors unlike the last show where we…
Solar Pillar on the morning of 12-Dec-2013
Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center – Air and Space Museum Visit
Space Shuttle Discovery SR-71 Blackbird
IC 1396 – The Elephants Trunk
FSQ-106ED Apogee U16 AP900GTO Mount MMOAG w/ ST-402 9.5 Hours Total Exposure Baader Ha, O[III], S[II] filters The Elephant’s Trunk nebula is a concentration of interstellar gas and dust within the much larger ionized gas region IC 1396 located in…