BackyardAstro

David Niedzialkowski - Jupiter

Jason — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 02:27:47 +0000

This is a re-post of an image a friend of mine took from Mansfield Dam at Lake Travis.
He just took the photo with a Sony point an shoot camera through the eye piece.

Not bad Dave!

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

Jason — Sun, 21 Dec 2008 02:55:37 +0000

M101 - The Pinwheel Galaxy

M13 - Hercules Cluster (color)

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:18:11 +0000

M13 - Hercules Cluster

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 02:16:36 +0000

Mars 2003 Opposition

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:45:45 +0000

Mars was closer to the Earth then it will ever be for the rest of my life. I was fortunate the weather cooperated and allowed me to get a descent photo. It was taken with a 6″ Meade Scmidt-Newtonian refractor. The imager was a web cam modified to fit the telescope.

Mars 2003

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:42:38 +0000

Jupiter

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:38:53 +0000

Jupiter 2

Jason — Thu, 04 Dec 2008 01:37:51 +0000

Saturn

Jason — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 02:47:27 +0000

Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT)

Jason — Tue, 27 May 2008 19:43:02 +0000

This is the first comet of significant brightness I’ve seen since Hale-Bopp. I took a large number of photos using my Canon 10D. The image is a composite of two different methods of stacking the frames. One image I stacked using the core of the comet to get a good image of it. The second is stacked using the stars for alignment. I took the comet stack and merged it with the phtoto of the star stacked image.

The end result is a final image of a comet that isn’t blured from its movement and a star field without trails.