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Kay Sears' Gallery

Here are a few of the many images obtained by Kay Sears, and some by Jeff Janover as well.

This is a dramatic sequence of photographs by Kay of a solar eclipse just as the sun emerges from behind the moon.

A beautiful image by Kay of the moon during a lunar eclipse.

The 1970 eclipse diamond ring by Kay

24" Aero Tessar

1/250 sec f4, ASA 160

1970 Eclipse full corona by Kay

24" Aero Tessar

2 sec f4, ASA 160

CCD image of Comet Hyakutake by Jeff Janover.

13" Coulter with SBIG-ST5 camera, 2 seconds

CCD image of Comet Hyakutake by Jeff Janover.

70mm zoom lens with SBIG-ST5 camera, 60 seconds, tracked.

CCD image of Moon by Jeff Janover.

Crater Endymion is in the foreground with Atlas and Hercules immediately behind and to the right. Chevalier, Shuckburgh, Cepheus, and Franklin are behind and to the left, and Mare Frigoris is to the right. North is down and East is to the left.

Imaged with an SBIG ST5 CCD camera and a Celestron Ultima8 at f10, exposure time 0.01 second, image spans 5.3 x 4.0 arcminutes.