Past ``Links of the Week''
- The Web Nebulae
- Send Your Name to Mars!
- Chuck's Astrophotography
- the ATM Page
- the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Astrophotography by Bob and Janice Fera
- The NGC/IC Project
- Deep Sky Collections and Catalogs
- The University of Arizona Alumni Association Astronomy Camp
- the Planetary Nebula Sampler
- The Planetary Nebulae Gallery
- Visual Deep-sky Astronomy
- Todd Gross' Weather and Astronomy Site
- First annual Black Forest Star Party at Cherry Springs State Park
- TASS, The Amateur Sky Survey
- Dan Bakken & Hercules - A 41.2" Newtonian Telescope
- Inconstant Moon
- the Silicon Sky
- Explorezone science news
- the Unofficial Black Forest Star Party Page
- The Nine Planets
- the Chandra X-ray Observatory Center
- Images from the Night Sky
- Amateur Astronomy Observers Log
- Ciel Extreme: A Deep Sky Observing publication in French/English
- Magnificent Space
- Carl Koppeschaar's ASTRONET
- Shooting the Aurora Borealis
- Mars Polar Lander Live
- the Astronomy Picture of the Day
- Drawings of Deepsky Objects With Large Telescopes
- The Linux Astro Pages
- PIZ's Jewel Box
- Ron Muir's Astronomy Deep Sky Guide
- Izzy's Skylog
- Martin's black and white Deep-Sky Astrophotography
- the Optics Gallery at the Corning Museum of Glass.
- the Internet Amateur Astronomers Catalog (IAAC)
- Near Earth Asteroid Rendezvous
- the Space Place
- Re-aluminizing the Lick Telescope Mirror
- National Optical Astronomy Observatories
- Walter MacDonald's Universe
- So you think you are tough?
- the NGC/IC Project
- StarChild: A Learning Center for Young Astronomers
- Imagine The Universe!
- the Visual Satellite Observer's Home Page
- E.T.'s Home Page
- Weird Telescopes
- Mars Mission Design Software
- The ATM Site
- the aberrator
- Cloudy Nights Telescope Reviews
- the Astronomy Connection
Past ``Photos of the Week''
- IC 2118, in Eridanus, The Witch Head Nebula by Chris Cook.
- Composite of 3 40-minute exposures on hypered Kodak PJ400
Scope - Televue TV-85 f/7 APO at f/5.6
Losmandy G-11 mount with SBIG ST-4 autoguider.
- the Southern Cross - Coal Sack - Eta Carinae area.
- A spectacular photo of a part of the Milky Way we can't see from our
latitude.
Taken by Axel Mellinger (who also created the 360 degree panorama of
the Milky Way as shown in
Sky & Telescope a few months ago).
Taken from South Africa,
30-minute exposure on Kodak PJM Ektapress film with a piggyback
Minolta 50mm lens at f/4.
- A remarkably detailed image of the Cone Nebula, NGC 2264,
- is by Rob Gendler, using a Takahashi FCT 150 (6" APO refractor) and an SBIG ST-8E CCD camera. Exposure was 80 minutes
"luminosity" through a red filter, then 20 minutes each for R, G, and B components.
- Jayne and Beau Kester were guest amateur astronomers at the Kitt Peak
Advanced Observer Program,
- and obtained this incredible shot of
M82
through the Visitor Center's 16" Meade LX-200 and SBIG ST-8E CCD camera.
You can be a guest observer
for a night for about $300 (excluding airfare).
- Mike Cook produced this spectacular, wide-field shot of the
Rosette Nebula,
- with his 130mm f/6 Astrophysics refractor, with a Nikon 1.4x tele-extender,
on E-200 film. Mike used a very complicated combination of exposures,
and explains on his web site some of his digital image processing wizardry.
- This image of the
SUN
- will take a while to download, but it's definitely worth the wait.
Photo by the Big Bear Solar Observatory, Apogee CCD camera.
- This high-resolution image of M57, the Ring Nebula,
- is a result of a composite of a luminosity image by Ray Gralak, with his 5" Takahashi, SBIG AO-7 adaptive optics device, SBIG-ST-8E CCD camera, and 2X barlow, and a color film image by Bobby Middleton with a 12" f/7 Newtonian.
- A spectacular image of a relatively little-observed edge-on galaxy in Draco, this shot of NGC 5907,
- was taken by Rob Gendler, with his new 12.5" RCOS scope and SBIG ST-8E CCD camera. Exposures were 60 minutes luminosity, 10 minutes each for red and green, and 20 minutes for blue.
- When is half a hat better than a whole hat? When the half hat is M 104
- as taken by 8-meter ANTU. There is just no substitute for square inches!
- here is a shot of NGC 7331, a few companions, and Stephan's Quintet,
- that shows what you can do (or, rather, what Tom Carrico can do) with a 3" telescope! That was a 3" Takahashi f/8 refractor, and the camera was an SBIG ST-7E.
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