IRAS 20568+5217 Nebula is listed at SIMBAD as a reflection nebula though it has the red color of a hydrogen emission nebula. The illuminating star is a FU...

AgentBot is a free Forte Agent addon utility toy. This version of AgentBot has only been tested on...

Hi, Tested my new Phillips SPC900 on my Vixen NP-R114S on a New Polaris with Dual-Axis Drive. Total of 17 avi Files with 512 Images each, Processed thru...

The flood of a 31-part DiVX AVI movie passed through my machine and got filtered off into a temporary location because it didn't have the "ASTRO" header. but...

.... and this was 4/4 before. This was my only shot that wasn't (optically) zoomed as close as possible. So I was lucky that it came out comparatively...

This was 2/4 in the earlier posting ... Approaching totality: the penumbra looks bright -- and inclined to bloom -- until it's reduced to the merest...

Trying again with my postings of yesterday that were split into parts, with higher maximum-length settings this time: hope they come through in one...

A rather bandwidth-hungry image/movie of the recent Mercury transit (pre-first contact to post-second contact) is available at...

Even at maximum the umbra is noticeably lighter toward its outer regions. ISO 400, 3/5 second at f/5 -- Odysseus

The penumbra appears very dark -- much more so than to the naked eye -- when the fully illuminated part of the disk is properly exposed. The Moon was already...

Having read this group for many moons without contributing, I feel I ought to post what I can ... The following were taken with a Canon PowerShot from the...

Hi people, I was out at sea last week (got back last night) and managed to get several photos of the Mercury maximum elongation on my cameraphone without...

Trying to get the sun shadow angles better

Here I tried to get the shadows of the rocks on the ground to match Saturn better.

Went out to take a Sunrise Picture and surprised a Deer (one look at it's eyes will tell you it WAS Surprised ;-) ). I laughed my ass off when I saw it on the...

Hi. In this digital age, fellow astronomy club members are constantly posting images on the Internet. Currently, there are two ways: 1) Email them to me,...