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Here are some recent Astronomy photos that I have taken

All were taken with the University of Missouri's 14in Schmidt-Cassegrain 3900mm Focal length Telescope and then RGB Combined.

Full Resolution Photos are available upon request.

The first several images are my more recent. First is M27 the Dumbell Nebula. You can see how much better it is than at the bottom of this page. New techniques really help! I was really pleased to see this. The others are NGC 2392 or the Eskimo and NGC 3242 or the Ghost of Jupiter Nebula

M27 with reduced blue.

M27 again with equal parts of RGB. Something must have happened to make it so blue. I thought it had less

This is supposed to be the Eskimo Nebula - NGC 2392. It is not recent but recently posted on 6/30/06. You can see I need to take a longer exposure.

And NGC 3242 the Ghost of Jupiter Nebula. It is cool huh? I’d like to have captured more red, but it wasn’t possible.

One of my favorite Creations M51 -- Whirlpool Galaxy

One of my favorites M13 the Hercules Cluster  (Hundreds of thousands of stars)

And a one of M37 we took for BatDan's astronomy project

0.120 Seconds with 1/2 aperture blocked

I love this picture.  For the first time ever I successfully captured detail of Jupiter.  Previously I was only able to get the 2 dark bands.  I am very happy.

Saturn with same setup.   You can see the shadow of the planet on the back ring and the front ring on the planet.

Saturn's Moons

With Moons labeled

It is impossible to show both the definition of the rings at the same time as the moons.  :(

M104 "Sombrero Galaxy" 360 second exposure at 40%

same 360 seconds with 100%

obviously my flats weren't as good as they should have been

And the best ever I did of M57

Big Dipper, notice the double stars Alcor and Mizar (the brighter) in the handle.  Each is in itself a double.

Scorpio on the right, Sagittarius on the left

I just noticed that these aren't showing up. I'll have to get that fixed. Actually I want to have a page dedicated to constellations solely.

Sagittarius and Scorpio

Cygnus the Swan

Orion Nebula with lots of red

Orion Nebula equal parts of color

1 of the Perseid Double Cluster

Mars, best I have so far, but just wait!

One phase of the moon

And the Dumbell Nebula again. Notice how my technique got better by comparing with the first photo!