The picture above was taken by JON MARTIN on 2/13/2010 with a phillips webcam, through a 120mm Orion refracter and a 5X powermate at about 8:30 P.M. using 10 fps for 2 minutes and processed in registax. Check out the ice cap at the top.

 

 

This picture above was taken by JON MARTIN in Jan/2010 with a phillips webcam through a 120mm Orion refracter and a 5X powermate.

 

 

The photo of Mars above was taken by Dave McQuade at 9:11 PM 12-28-2007, and his photo information is as follows:

The central meridian is 187.11 and Mars was 15.59 arc minutes in size. The shot was a 180 second shot, 5 frames per second, stacked in Registax 4, and processed in Adobe Photoshop.  

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Comet Holmes - taken by David McQuade

The one is a 30 second, unguided exposure with a 300mm lens, processed in Photoshop.

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Comet Holmes - taken by Dave McQuade

"This is a 30 second shot thru my Meade LX 200 14" processed in both Maxim DL and Photoshop.

I thought it would maybe be interesting to try and put both images next to each other as a contrast, one showing approximately what it looked like to the eye  and one in a telescope."  - Dave McQuade

 

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M1 - taken by:

Robert Hardy

Telescope is a 14.5”  RCOS  and camera is an SBIG ST-11000

www.SandboxObservatory.Com

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Comet 17PHolmes - taken by:

Robert Hardy

Telescope is a 14.5”  RCOS  and camera is an SBIG ST-11000

www.SandboxObservatory.Com

 

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M20 the Trifid

M 20 was taken at the Fakahatchee Strand Preserve State Park in the Everglades, with the Orion Starshoot and the William Optics FLT 110. 45-20 sec exposures.  Taken by Chuck Pavlick.

 

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Eclipse of February 20th, 2008

6 Photo's below taken by SWFAS member Mary Vilbig

who describes herself as

"an amateur with a little handheld camera and an 8" Celestron Dobs"

 

Going,

Going,

Going,

Totality,

Returning,

And returning again.

Nice job, Mary.  Thanks for sharing the pics.

 

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