Wide-Field AstroPhotography
My favorite area of the Sky
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 Westerm Sagittarius
 The above image was taken with a piggybacked Canon SLR w/ a 200mm
lens at 10 min withKodak Gold 400pushed 1 stop, using my C14 to track.
Here are some  pictures from past star parties by some NCAS members.

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My AstroPhotography Attempts
Basically the images get better the closer they are to the top of the list.                                                   Soapstone Site - Cancelled
        Newer Work

• TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE August 21, 2017, Western Nebraska  07/17/17 NEW !!
• Wide Field Stitch of the Milky Way Southern Summer Sky From Keota, Colorado  August 2010
• Wide-Field Peresus, with Double Cluster, Open Clusters and Hydrogen II nebulas from Keota Nov.06, 2010
• The Orion Nebula from Keota Nov 2010 (wide-field), Prospect Ponds (X5-wide-field) in 2010, Cactus Flats in 2001
• My current star party set-up - This is what I use to view the stars when I can get out into the DARK!    Oct. 2010
• Binocular Parallelogram Tripod  How I constructed the tripod for my 20x90mm binoculars  May, 2009
• Comet Holmes  from Ft. Collins, CO on Nov. 14, 2007, next Mirfak, Perseus >> <<
• Close Encounters of the Pleiades & Moon      Sept. 2006 & Oct. 2010 
• Venus- Moon Occultation To many clouds          April 22, 2009 
• Almost the Northern-most image of Omega Centauri (03/16/02)
• A great Summer Constellation Cygnus two-shot Carter Lake Knolls, west of Loveland, Colo.
• Leonid Meteor Storm photos w/ burst  Nov. 18, 2001
• 3D Leonid Meteor Calculations to determine height of an incoming Leonid meteor  2000/2001
• My Best Crescent Moon shots yet..setting over the Rockies Nov. 17, 2001
• Comet Bradfield 2004 F4 from Cactus Flats, April 27, 2004
• New Aurora from Story,Wyo. Sept. 8, 2K
• Q4 & The Beehive Cluster  from Cactus flats North two nights May 14-15,2K4
• Ikeya- Zhang Comet CCD pic (03/09/02)
• Working on my Messier Certification  Colo-Wyo area!  Been working on photgraphy

        Older Work

• Wide-Field (25mm) of the Southern Milky Way  from 2002 WUTS July 28-30, 2K2
• Wide-Field Southern July 2001 sky w/ Mars@opposition
• Comet Hoenig on morning & evening in Aug. & Sept. 2002
• Info on the b-Coma Berenices Cluster- 31 Coma B Galactic Cluster
• February 2002 StarWatch & CCD session
• Cactus Flat images of The Pleiades Oct/Nov 2001
• April 2001 Pawnee Prairie Grasslands  New moon weekend - Mars in Scorpio
• Virginia Dale, Colo  HWY 14 just south of Wyo border   Oct.30,2K
• From Crow Valley morning shot north of Briggsdale, Colo.   Aug. 2, 2K
• January 20, 2000 Lunar Eclipse from Longmont, CO

        First Attempts

• 1st guided narrow field at Virginia Dale ofM31/32/110September 2001
• Fox Park,Wyoming WUTS  August 1999
• Learning how to use my ST-6 CCD camera from my kitchen table
• Early shots of California Nebula, Aurora & DIA   from Cactus Flats, west of Briggsdale,Colo.
• Some of my first attempts at Astro-photographyPawnee Praririe Grasslands (Cactus Flats)
• Filter Choices for Kitt Peak Advanced Observering Program Aug 5,6 1997
• My HST Proposal NGC 6027 Project

Other Pages

• Talk on the Pawnee Native American Sky Lore, not by me.
• Need to edit/publish my Native American Astronomy paper.

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