Tuesday, September 27, 2022

Another quickie of the Sun this morning!

 Another quickie of the two southern sunspot groups that I imaged when 5th and 6th graders from Veritas Christian School this morning at Patterson Observatory here in Sierra Vista. Great group of kids! Thanks for coming! (Click image for a larger view)



Thursday, September 15, 2022

The Lagoon Nebula

 It has been a while since I was able to do some astro-imaging due to the long monsoon season.

Here is my image of the Lagoon Nebula taken with a Meade 8" telescope and a Canon T3i camera with a UHC filter taken last week.

Be sure to click the image for a larger view!



More Solar Imaging... night imaging to come!

  Taken with a monochrome 5 megapixel camera on an 8" SCT Meade LX200GPS with a Baader solar filter and a 2X Barlow len.s Of these two ...