Astronomy people, places celestial events and things that caught my fancy......
Earla tried her hand at astrophotography:
Canon 10D, Short Tube 80mm at prime focus. 11/25/2006 Flat Iron Observing site.
Found time at work to set up the telescope and shoot this image of Mercury just as it was disappearing. The sun was low over the mountains and I was losing the battle with the seeing. Shot at prime focus on my ETX125 with the Canon 10D, through an Orion Solar filter. 11/8/06, Higley, AZ
Paul Knauth, Geology Professor at ASU with the 12.5 f7 he and his dad built in the early 60's. Weighs three quarters of a ton and has a special trailer that loads, unloads, hauls and stores the beast I call Scope-Zilla. Optics are perfect!
Raw image of Mars during the 2003 close approach. I shot around 300 frames and have yet to try stacking anything. (raw uncorrected image, Canon D30 eyepiece projection 9mm University Optics Ortho)
Andromeda Galaxy. Canon 10D on an Orion Short Tube 90. Little bit of field rotation due to ALT/AZ mounting. The reddish haze on the right end of the image is the bloom from the CMOS amplifier. (raw uncorrected image, Canon 10d at prime focus)
M13 Great Hercules Globular Cluster. (raw uncorrected image, Canon 10d at prime focus of the 10" f/10 SCT)
M57 The Ring Nebula, a planetary nebula in Lyra (raw uncorrected image, Canon 10d at prime focus of the 10" f/10 SCT)
Stan Gorodowski's Blue Mountain Observatory in Dewy, AZ
We visited Palomar during their first ever public open house.
As far as I am concerned it don't get any bigger than this, even though it does!
John Dobson visits Phoenix.....
Beevo the autograph hound, "I'll never wash my shirt again!"
The great wee-ird comet of 2007. Comet 17PHolmes astounded us with it's incredible brightening act of a few weeks ago. This image was shot on November 10th, 2007 in southern Arizona. Meade ED80 APO Triplet with a Canon 10d, focused with a FotoSharp T-ring available from KW Telescopes in Canada. Unprocessed JPG image, shot at "3200ASA"