Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

— Inscription on Columbus' caravels

Astrophotography

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

M44 Beehive

By dtrapani at Sat, 02/14/2009 - 10:43pm
M44 Beehive

California Nebula

By dtrapani at Sat, 02/14/2009 - 10:42pm
California Nebula

Infinite Dreams

By Anonymous at Mon, 02/09/2009 - 11:43pm

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...

Infinite Dreams

Flaming star nebula

By marzulloj at Mon, 02/09/2009 - 12:11am

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.

Flaming star nebula

MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

By Anonymous at Wed, 02/04/2009 - 5:28pm
MOON SEEN THROUGH REFRACTOR

MOON AIRLINES

By Anonymous at Wed, 02/04/2009 - 5:24pm
MOON AIRLINES

NGC-2244

By marzulloj at Sat, 01/24/2009 - 11:44pm

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.

NGC-2244

FULL MOON

By Anonymous at Sun, 01/18/2009 - 7:02pm

HAND HELD PIC USING NEW CAM.

FULL MOON