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Here are three photos (combined
into a single image) of Jupiter taken last May shortly after we
installed the telescope. Each image is a composite of
approximately 50 shots, layered to create a final image. Equipment: |
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This is one of the first photographs we took. Saturn is always an amazing site and, while smaller when viewed through the telescope, it is tack sharp and very beautiful. Equipment:
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In August the Moon was the most
interesting object to view. This is a composite of three
images. I usually photograph features that I find interesting and
then identify them later using a moon map and a great web site: These images of the moon's surface are not layered like the images above. They are a single photographic image. The device taking the image uses a "best sharp" algorithm that measures the quality of the image and saves the best image as the final image. Click the crater Copernicus for a closer look! Equipment: |
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Sep 4 22:13:00 EDT 2004
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Labor Day Weekend! These were taken on a still Saturday night. The moon was rising in the East over the ocean and was at approx 8 degrees altitude Equipment:
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Monday Sep 13 22:45:00 EDT 2004
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M13, also called the `Great globular cluster in Hercules', is one of the most prominent and best known globulars of the Northern celestial hemisphere. Globular cluster M13 was selected in 1974 as target for one of the first radio messages addressed to possible extra-terrestrial intelligent races, and sent by the big radio telescope of the Arecibo Observatory. Equipment: |
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Thurs
Sep 23 21:45:00 EDT 2004
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This photo of the nine day moon was taken on a still clear night using the Meade Lunar Planetary Imager The westward movement of the
terminator has revealed one of the Moon's finest sights: the magnificent class
1 ring
mountain Copernicus.
It is not the largest (this title belongs to Bailly)
or deepest (probably Newton), or the brightest (its albedo
being 0.16) nor does it have the largest ray system (Tycho).
Its prominence is due to a combination of these factors and its fine
position in a smooth Mare
just north
of the lunar equator. Equipment:
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Wednesday
October 27th 21:57:00 EDT 2004
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This series of four photos was taken over a period of 21 min 52 sec and shows the eclipse as the shadow of the earth moves across Mare Crisium Equipment:
Here's our first photo of the 2005 spring season! Coincidentally, almost 1 year to the hour from last year's first pic
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Here's the first photo of the 2006 spring season - 2 years after our last photo of Saturn Equipment: |
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