“...all the past is but a beginning of a beginning, and that all that is and has been is but the twilight of dawn.”

— H.G. Wells
1902

Astrophotography

The dark side of photography. Deep space and planetary imaging. Occasionally some day light pictures of the Sun.

M44 Beehive

M44 Beehive

California Nebula

California Nebula

Infinite Dreams

Infinite Dreams

I hope you all like this picture.  It looked yellow when I saw it but I don't see yellow in the pic.  When the moon was appearing over the rooftops it looked bigger and like I was looking through a soap bubble.  Weird.  I hope this file is not too big or redundant.  I thought it was interesting.   I seem to be taking a lot of moon pics lately.  By the time I got the camera out the buble effect disappeared.  I set the cam to manual exposure and manual focus.  Now that I think some more...

Flaming star nebula

Flaming star nebula

Warm, temps in the 30's.
Straight overhead and far enough away from the full moon in Auriga.
Two hour shot in pseudo-color and H alpha.

MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

MOON AIRLINES

MOON AIRLINES

NGC-2244

NGC-2244

Balmy temps in the upper 20's lured me out to do some imaging.
This one is  a one hour combined exposure in false color.

FULL MOON

FULL MOON

HAND HELD PIC USING NEW CAM.