this was very low in the sky: shot in mid December of 2000: about two weeks after I got my first CCD camera and about a month after my first telescope...

From my backyard 28 miles south of Wash DC. 3 January 2008. Taken with an NP-101 at F/5.4. One 5 minute exposure using a Hutech modified Canon 40D at ...

First piggybag images with my Fujifilm S5500 camera. Don't know the names in English of what I shot, but I'm sure one of you is going to tell me ;-) Very...

130/900 Newton, 25 mm Plössl oculair, camera mount for my FujiFilm S5500 camera. One photograph, so no stacking. Having an ear infection at the moment :-( so...

Well, been a busy one this weekend. Here are some first sun photographs and a Venus one. All stacked from around 6 RAW images. Little story with the Venus...

Clouds, bad seeing and rather a lot of wind ... shake it baby :-( Despite that all, I wanted to try my LPI on the moon for the first time and this one came...

Hello everyone, Long time reader but never a poster till tonight, finally got my canon xti to work. Now if I could just get a mount I could guide! M45 taken...

This shot gives a whole new meaning to reflection "nebula"! With a big bright moon nearby I decided to try the H-alpha filter on the Flame. I quickly...

I was surprised to see very little green signal from this guy. It was mostly blue or red and the two are very different objects. Looking at the raw images...

For those that prefer their astronomy in 2415 mode here the luminosity files. Actually I combined the RGB files in with the 16 pure luminosity files for...

First completed in late 2005 this building replaces the old tent that was always wet and muddy in the rain. It is used for telescope and mirror making demos,...

Forecast as Mag -7 but a *very* hazy sky- Cassiopeia invisible for example plus the Moon directly opposite. Total round trip 200 feet at 3:44 AM-centre was...

Back on Dec 2 Richard Crisp posted a shot of SH2-240 (Simeis 147) in Taurus, a super nova remnant that covers many square degrees. Far more than I can hope...

I recently put the Explore Scientific 0.7 3" reducer on my ES 127 FCD100 APO and was pleased to see that they both work well together. As the sky was not good...

NGC 1788 is a Orion Nebula, not THE Orion Nebula but it certainly is a nebula in Orion. We normally think of emission nebula when mention is made of Orion...

I am posting this again because I posted this earlier but I didn't see it. Sorry! 70mm refractor @ f/8 hand held EOS 400D for 1/200sec Joe

I hope you will appreciate the enclosed picture taken out from a mosaic of 20 images in Hydrogen-Alpha of the heart of Cygnus: from gamma to eta Cygnus: : The...

ASTRO: FS128F Curvature & Flat-Field Map Question .. ....The only comparision i can make is a Televue Pronto which had/has 33% Curvature, and is bloody obvious...

I don't remember if posts advertising items for sale are ok on S.A.A. If not, I apologize. Briefly, I have a Celestron C5 reflector and Tele-view Ranger...