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Monday, August 16, 2010
My Wife's New Blog
My wife just started a new blog about her favorite hobby, making cards. This is something she loves and does very well. It takes lots of talent and patience to be good at, along with having an eye for composition and color. One last attribute that is quite valuable is being a good photographer. At last we will all be able to see the products of hours of time and effort. Her blog can be found at:
http://lisalynncard.blogspot.com/
Check it out!
Friday, July 16, 2010
Crescent Nebula NGC 6888 Enhanced
Crescent Nebula NGC 6888
We were very lucky to have a nice clear night to image, so I headed to my friend's Sheldon's house to image through a five inch Apo refractor from Explore Scientific owned by our good friend Scott Roberts. Sheldon and I thought that this nebula would be a good object to image with this instrument and an SBIG ST10 camera. We took seventy minutes of red and green and only thirty minutes of blue because of the mount stopping after the third sub in blue. The image was processed by Sean Walker, our friend who is one of the best people in the art of astro image processing. This collaboration has created this image. It again demonstrates how beautiful the night sky is.
Thursday, April 29, 2010
Messier 81 and 82
Two of the most interesting galaxies are found in Ursa Major, better known as the constellation containing the Big Dipper. This image of these two bright galaxies was made with an 8" f/3.68 Faworski Astrograph mounted on a Paramount 1100S with a ST10XE w/CFW8. The moon was still up when my friend Sheldon and I started this image. As normal, this is the sum of a number of sub exposures that are put together in post processing. The final processing was done by our friend Sean Walker who is one of the best. There are a number of smaller, fainter galaxies visible in the image if you look closely.
Friday, May 22, 2009
M88
This is my first astro image in some time taken with Sheldon's 10 inch telescope. I'm still recovering from the removal of a renal cancer tumor in my spine which also had to be fused together with a metal clamp. It was the most difficult of my three surgeries, but once everything is done, I should be able to walk with less pain.
The taking of this image sure helps the healing process and would not be possible without the help of my friend Sheldon. Thanks also to Sean for a great job processing the image.
With everything that has happened in the past months, seeing this galaxy reminds me just how small we are in the whole universe.
Thursday, March 19, 2009
Jasmine
Snow Trees
Casio and the sun
Tuesday, October 21, 2008
October Galaxy
This is a faint galaxy with a strange name, IC342. It was taken the evening of October 20th, 2008 in one of my friend Sheldon's observatories in NW Illinois using an eight inch newtonian reflector and an SBIG ST10 CCD camera. The galaxy is in the constellation Camelopardalis, but is very near my wife's star in the constellation Cassiopeia. Thanks go to Sean Walker for the wonderful processing of the image files.
Sunday, August 03, 2008
NGC7635 Bubble Nebula
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