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Shootin' for the Moon
AZ Sky Guy | June 29th 2008 by Rob Keefe
After observing some incredible celestial sights through my trusty scope, it didn't take long for me to get the photography itch. Ive' seen some awesome photographs taken by guys in my astronomy club and I wanted to give this art form a try.&nb read more
Rings of Saturn - Postcard From a Robot
Apathetic Lemming of the North | June 28th 2008 by Brian Gill
"Perspective on Saturn" NASA / JPL (June 27, 2008) "The ringed planet sits in repose, the center of its own macrocosm of many rings and moons and one artificial satellite named Cassini. Mimas (397 kilometers, or 247 miles across) is visible at upper read more
Mars And Beehive Star Cluster Conjunction
Blackholes and astrostuff | June 6th 2008 by Bob Johnson
Took a couple images of the Mars, Beehive open star cluster conjunction which occurred May 22nd. The Beehive Cluster is located in the constellation Cancer, is anywhere from about 400-750 million years old, 577 light years away and is 16 light years read more
Astro Photography
Pete's Photo Blog | May 12th 2008 by Pete Barnes
I haven't done a great deal of astro photography, largely due to a lack in focal length but as it was a relatively clear evening I decided to slap on the 100-400 and a 1.4x tele extender and see what I got. The tele extenders increase your focal leng read more
Moon, Jupiter Conjunction
Blackholes and astrostuff | May 2nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
Sunday April 27th. in the early morning hours we had a Lunar, Jupiter conjunction, how early, well it started as the pair rose, around 2:47 am. That's right 2:47 am, now you'd think everyone in their right mind would probably be asleep at that time, read more
Astrophotography Camera Deep Sky Pro Imager 2
Daily Tech Impressions | April 7th 2008 by Shawn
Description of Deep Sky Pro Meade Deep Sky Imager PRO II Monochrome w/AutoStar Suite. The user-friendly astrophotography revolution continues. Introducing the new DSI II. It combines ease-of-use with a larger chip, greater sensitivity, higher resolu read more
Gamma Ray Burst and Worm Moon
Blackholes and astrostuff | March 22nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
Time and again readers such as Anna and JJ along with others have sent me articles of space happenings and current affairs of the night sky. This is too cool, my readers are taking the time out of their busy day to do this, it means a lot to me, so w read more
Lunar Halo and Mars, Moon Conjunction
Blackholes and astrostuff | March 19th 2008 by Bob Johnson
Out on my back deck getting some images of the Mars , Moon conjunction last Friday night when I noticed that a lunar halo was starting to form, try to take a picture from my backyard, no go, with all the city lights there wasn't enough contrast, deci read more
Red Moon Rise
Blackholes and astrostuff | March 8th 2008 by Bob Johnson
The day after the Total Lunar Eclipse was perfectly clear, a good time to try and capture a 98% of Full Moon Rise. The Moon was scheduled to rise at 7:40 pm, a perfect time, just the right darkness. So I head out to my dark location on the outskirts read more
My first photos of Saturn
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 26th 2008 by Maxim
Well today the sky finally cleared up, and I could get to the telescope early enough after work. The moon is rising 3 hours after Saturn does today. Saturn is very far, and it looks like a tiny star to the naked eye. Even in my telescope it looks tin read more
Online Telescopes for Astronomers (and Planet-Hunters, maybe)
Exoplanetology | February 23rd 2008 by Metapsyche
The latest issue of Wired Magazine (March 2008, page 060) featured 4 online telescopes for the "urban astro-nerds". Its been said that you can control these telescopes remotely from the web and order prints of your photos. That's very cool, but I hav read more
I've been published!
At Close Range Photography & Custom Portraits | February 22nd 2008 by Regina
I woke up this morning to my eclipse collage in the Lexington Herald-Leader newspaper. It was featured in the 1000 words column. The paper has a circulation of around 120,000 people. What a great way to start the day! read more
Stages of the Eclipse-2/20/08
At Close Range Photography & Custom Portraits | February 21st 2008 by Regina
Here is another collage I put together with the various stages of the eclipse. The view from central Kentucky was spectacular. I can't wait for the next one to roll around. I have made my two collages available in my Etsy store. This one will be pri read more
Lunar Eclipse February 20, 2008
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 20th 2008 by Maxim
Today’s eclipse is the last one until 2010. Unfortunately I missed the beginning, but as soon as I got home I set up my rig and began shooting. I captured the full eclipse and the beginning of the end, when the Moon started to show a thin cres read more
Photos of the Moon and Mars (Feb 16, 2008)
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 20th 2008 by Maxim
The entire slideshow is here: http://public.fotki.com/MaxiMovieBlog/moon-and-mars-photos/ I looked up in the sky and saw Mars almost lined up with the Moon. I set up the telescope and the tripod with Canon EOS 20D camera, 300mm image stabilzing zoom read more
Saturn and the Source Fource
Two^Sixteen | February 20th 2008 by JBardey
Okay, couple of things today. Saturn Firstly, an image I took of Saturn through my new telescope. This was the first image I took. The next night I used a higher magnification and got this one: I think these are about as good as I can get with the read more
Video of the Moon through telescope (Feb 15, 2008)
Maxim's Movie Reviews and Opinions | February 16th 2008 by Maxim
v You need to have flashplayer enabled to watch this Google video Video of the Moon shot through Meade ETX-125AT telescope with just a simple cheap Canon A620 7.1MP point-and-shoot camera that can also take 640×480 videos at 30fps. The camera is read more
Sun dogs and Solar halos
Blackholes and astrostuff | February 16th 2008 by Bob Johnson
Finally people I have benefited in a large way from these stupid cold -35c temperatures in the form of very cool Sun dogs and Solar halos, because that's when these puppies come out to play. Sun dogs are bright circular spots on a Solar halo, they ar read more
Conjunction Of Venus And Jupiter In Sagittarius
Blackholes and astrostuff | February 2nd 2008 by Bob Johnson
Venus, Jupiter conjunction January 31, 2008Don't wanna seem like a braggy Bob, but I got a some real cool pics of the Venus , Jupiter conjunction. The weather co-operated apart from it being -30c, the camera still working at those temps, just amazing read more
Asteroids and Spy Satellites
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 30th 2008 by Bob Johnson
People it's becoming one big shooting gallery up there, first we have the near miss of Mars with asteroid 20007 WD5 today, then we have the close approach of asteroid 2007 TU24 yesterday, the above image, then we have the Spy Satellite free falling o read more
Picture Perfect Little Mercury
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 16th 2008 by Bob Johnson
The above image of Mercury was taken about 17,000 miles out, 80 minutes after Messenger's closest approach of 126 miles. It is a view of Mercury never seen or imaged before.Messenger made it's closest approach to Mercury January 14th. on it's long 4. read more
Smokey Sunset
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 12th 2008 by Bob Johnson
It's been pretty cloudy and miserable around here for the past week, since I got the new camera not much time to use it, feel like I'm all dressed up and no where to go. The last time I was able to get out and use it was over a week ago during the Qu read more
Campanus Crater
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 9th 2008 by Bob Johnson
UPDATE: The chances of asteroid 2007 WD 5 hitting Mars are now 1 in 10,000. Observations from 4 different observatories have indicated the asteroid will come no closer then 4,000 kms. to Mars.The above image is the location of my acreage on the Mo read more
Quadrantids and Orion The Mighty Hunter
Blackholes and astrostuff | January 5th 2008 by Bob Johnson
People I'm soo happy! Got my first image of a Meteor, a Quadrantids meteor no less. Left my house at 12:30 am Friday morning and headed out to a predetermined spot I had scoped out earlier, just on the outskirts of town. Had done my homework, read th read more
Photoshop Tutorial: Diffraction Spikes #1
Deep Sky Blog | January 4th 2008 by Rick Williams
Lately, I've been fooling around with my Adobe Photoshop, and decided to give a whirl at creating artificial diffraction spikes on wide-angle astrophotography. My final photograph will be submitted after this article because it is still in need of so read more
Solar Observation - How To's
Amateur Astronomy | January 3rd 2008 by Andrew Kucheriavy
One of the most interesting and my all-time favorite celestial objects is the Sun. Many star-gazers somehow miss this quite average star which is the closest star to us and the only one that we can observe in such detail. It is also one of the few ce read more
Solar Photography - First Attempt
Amateur Astronomy | January 2nd 2008 by Andrew Kucheriavy
My first shot at solar photography was somewhat successful. I was hoping to capture stunning sun spots but there were only a couple of tiny ones to my disappointment.Equipped with my trusted Celestron NexStar 8SE (8" SCT) and my camera (Canon EOS 400 read more
Cassiopeia, C14 and Perseus
Astronomy Diary | January 2nd 2008 by JayBee
[click to enlarge]20:24:10 UTC 1st December 2004Canon EOS 300D with 18mm lens at F3.5120 sec exposure at ISO 1600It is very enjoyable taking wide-field images of whole constellations. This image is of two constellations, Cassiopeia and Perseus. It is read more
Christmas Moon
Blackholes and astrostuff | December 30th 2007 by Bob Johnson
The above GIF is the December 100% of Full Moon, or as the Colonial Americans used to call it, "Christmas Moon". Actually went looking for a Sunset just on the outskirts of town, no luck again clouds, but when I turned around and glanced at the East, read more
Paint Shop Pro
Astronomy Diary | December 29th 2007 by JayBee
For processing images Paint Shop Pro graphics editing software is used. It is a much cheaper alternative to Photoshop and for astrophotography it does everything you need of it.There are many useful functions in Paint Shop Pro. One such function is " read more
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