Pictures taken from my deck in Corte Madera, CA

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Star Birth

   

M42, the Great Orion nebula and the Running Man  nebula

Two views: Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel.  Left: with Orion Skyglow filter.  Right: more/longer exposures with no filter.

Horsehead and Flame nebulas in Orion

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow filter

North America nebula in Cygnus

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter


Rosette nebula in Monoceros
(two post-processing versions: left for beauty, right for detail)

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

Plieades cluster and dust nebula in Taurus

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M13 the Great Cluster in Hercules

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

Star Death

M27, the Dumbbell nebula

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M57, the Ring nebula, with a a version on the right stretched to bring out the faint galaxy IC 1296

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter


M1, the  Crab nebula

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter


Western Veil nebula

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel.  Top: with Orion Skyglow filter.  Bottom: same with luminosity set by image taken with Orion hydrogen-alpha filter.

Trillions of Stars

 

M31, the Andromeda spiral galaxy

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M51, the Whirlpool galaxy

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M33, the Trangulum spiral  galaxy

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter


NGC 891, an edge-on spiral galaxy in Andromeda

Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M101 and its neighborhood

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter



the Leo Triplet of galaxies

Taken with the Orion EON ED80, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

M66, from the Leo triplet
 Taken with the Celestron C11 w/ f/6.3 focal reducer, modified Canon Digital Rebel with Orion Skyglow Imaging filter

My First Asteroid


The asteroid Dembowska was in the star field of the Leo Triplet at magnitude 10.8.   The left picture is annotated with star labels.  The right picture is an animation showing two frames taken 1 hour and 40 minutes apart.



The system used to take the pictures on this page includes:
A very cool thing: using the Macintosh's OS X 10.5 "screen sharing" feature (and/or vnc on 10.4) I can remotely monitor and control the camera and mount from inside the house!

Here is a comparison of the results from a standard and modified Canon Digital Rebel:  The same object with the same set of exposures and my making the best picture I can in both cases:



Standard Digital Rebel XTi
(unguided)

Modified Digital Rebel

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