Showpiece Image Gallery

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Comet Hale Bopp, 5 minute exposure (film) w/ 500mm F6.3 lens

Taken from Salem, CT.

North American Nebula, 38 minute exposure (film) w/ 500mm F6.3 lens

Taken at Connecticut Star Party 9, 10 September 1999 (Colebrook, CT).

Pleiades (M45), taken w/ Vixen 102 ED Refractor

Kodak Royal Gold 400 film, 23 December 2000.

M5 Globular Cluster, 5 minute (film) exposure w/ Celestron CG-11 @ F6.3

Taken from Blandford, MA, March 1997.

Great Nebula in Orion, 60 minute CCD total exposure through 4" Refractor

Taken from Voluntown, CT, 31 October 2008

Andromeda Galaxy, 44 minutes total CCD exposure through 4" Refractor

Taken from Voluntown, CT, October 2008.

Rosette Nebula, three stacked 10 minute (film) exposures w/ 500mm F6.3lens

Taken from Wilbraham MA (light polluted) on 25 December 2000.

27 October 2004 Lunar Eclipse (Celestron CG-11 telescope @F6.3, 200 ISO slide film.

Taken from Voluntown, CT.

Comet Hyakutake, 5 minute (film) exposure w/ 28mm F2.8 lens

Taken from Lebanon, CT, March 1996.

Aurora (Northern Lights), Colebrook CT, 7 September 2002

Wide Angle (film) exposure, Big Dipper visible near horizon.

Eastern Sky Rising at Arunah Hill

The California Nebula, Pleiades and Hyades are visible in this film shot, taken in 2001 from Arunah Hill, Cummington MA.

Members of Our Solar System: Mars, Jupiter and Saturn

Photos taken with Olympus C3030 Zoom digital camera (afocal method). 28 Aug 2003 (Mars), 12 January 2001 (Jupiter) and 17 November 2001 (Saturn).

Lunar Close Up, Celestron C14 @F3.3, Orion Starshoot II Imager

Taken 14 February 2008 from Voluntown CT.

Waning Moon, 26 July 2008

Taken with a 4" refractor from Voluntown, CT (CCD image).

The Ring Nebula

Taken with Meade Pictor 216XT CCD camera using Celestron CG-11.