Archives for the 'astrophotography' Category
Occultation Photographs
Published on 27 Apr 2009 at 7:08 pm.
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Last week, I wrote about the occultation of Venus. You can read that posting to find out more about the event. I got several comments on the posting. One reader, Phillip Uttz took some photos of the event. He emailed them to me and said that I could post them, but I was at the […]
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Pictures of the conjunction!
Published on 1 Dec 2008 at 7:05 pm.
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A little while ago I took these photos of the conjunction that I blogged about a few hours ago. As before, click on the image to get a bigger sized view.
Both photos were taken with a Nikon D70, ISO 1600. The upper one was an 0.5 second exposure, and the lower one was a […]
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More eclipse photos
Published on 21 Feb 2008 at 8:23 pm.
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Scott sent me some more eclipse photos, along with permission to post them here. He got some better ones than I did.Â
 The first one is of the moon as it is being eclipsed, and the second one is of the moon almost completely eclipsed.
And, here is one of the Moon totally eclipsed:
 One shot that I […]
Some eclipse photos
Published on 21 Feb 2008 at 4:33 pm.
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Last night, we set up on campus to observe the lunar eclipse. Things didn’t look so good at first — nothing but clouds, and a forecast for rain. But, looking at the satellite images in the afternoon, and looking at the type of clouds that we had, I had a feeling that it […]
The Hubble Palette and Digital Color Photos
Published on 11 Feb 2008 at 6:05 pm.
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This wonderful photo was taken by Steve Tuttle. It is of an emission nebula designated IC 2177, and sometimes called the Seagull Nebula. It is actually a portion of a much larger region of excited gas. This is a region of space where stars are forming. The most massive stars […]
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Yet another Comet Holmes Photo
Published on 29 Oct 2007 at 5:37 pm.
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One of my readers, Don Spain, send me this image that he took of the comet. I am posting it with his permission. The object is 17P/Holmes. The photo was taken through a 152mm achromat with an IR cutoff filter.
In the photo, you see what look like two bright nuclei. In […]
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Comet Holmes and Perseus
Published on 28 Oct 2007 at 12:16 am.
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I took this photo a few hours ago.
It shows the comet in the constellation Perseus over the roof of my house. You can compare the photo with the finder chart that I created for my October 25 posting. Â The photo was taken with a 6 second exposure using a Pentax K110 digital SLR, […]
