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I hope you got a chance to go out and look at this beautiful site in the Western sky just after sunset. Venus, Jupiter, and Moon put on a great show for several hours.
Saturn taken from North Houston on 3-11-08 with the CPC-11 Celestron and the ToUcam.
The best 110 frames out of 517 taken. Processed in RegiStax V4.
This is a composite image of Jupiter, Saturn and Venus. Note the Red Spot on Jupiter, the ring tilt on Saturn and only a half sun lit Venus. This image was taken on 6-12-07
This is a composite image taken of the alignment of Saturn, The Moon, and Venus.
Taken from Ft. Davis on 6-19-07
This image of the Moon was taken in 6-18-2007 with a 16" RCOS and the Lumenera camera.
Images were combined and processed in RegiStax. This area is known as Langrenus.
Same as above.
This area is known as Mare Crisium.
Same as above.
This area is known as Rimae Petavius.
This is an image of Sunspot #960 taken from Houston on 6-4-07. Taken with a Takahashi FS-128 and the Coronado SM-90 HA filter.
Transit
of Mercury on November 8, 2006. Shot with web cam & a H-Alpha filter. From
Houston Tx.
Transit
of Mercury on November 8, 2006. Shot with web cam & a H-Alpha filter.From
Houston Tx.
Sun spot also taken on November 8, 2006. From Houston Tx.
Mercury transit as in began. This image was taken in white light with a Takahashi FS-128 and the Nikon D-70s. From Houston Tx.
Mercury in transit taken in white light. The oblong shape of Mercury is due to exposure.
What a beautiful sight. This is a conjunction of Venus, Jupiter, and the Moon taken on 9-6-05 from Ft. Davis, Tx. The star to the left of the moon is Spica. This image was taken with a Nikon D-70 with a 170mm lens exposed for 5 seconds. The dark side of the moon is lit up by Earthshine.
A very nice conjunction between Venus & Jupiter on the morning of Nov. 4, 2004. Taken from Houston, Texas with the Nikon D-70 digital camera and the Takahashi FS-128 at prime focus. Four of Jupiter's moon can be seen.
The Lunar Time Clock. This is a composite of images taken before and during the Total Eclipse on October 27.
Total Lunar Eclipse taken from North Houston on 10-27-04 at 10:05 pm. Image taken with the Nikon D-70 and the Takahashi FS-128 at prime focus. It is a 8 second exposure at 200 ASA.
This
image of Saturn was taken from Houston TX, on 1-13-04 @ 9:30 CST. It was taken
with the Takahashi FS-128 with a 2.5 powermate & the Philips ToUcam PRO
II. Seventy-Five of the best images was aligned and stacked using RegiStax.
This image of Jupiter was taken on 2-19-04 from N. Houston. This image was taken with the ToUcam Pro II using the Takahashi Fs-128 and processed using RegiStax and Photoshop. You Can also see two moons, Io on the left and Europa on the right plus the shadow of Io on planet.
This image of Mars was taken with the Nikon D-100 digital camera through the 36 inch telescope at McDonald Observatory. It is a single exposure processed in Photoshop.
Taken from the N. Houston on 2-22-04 with the Takahashi Fs-128 and the ToUcam Pro II and the SM-90 Solar Max Filter. This is the largest solar flare I have seen in a great while. It looked much better visually than what this image shows. Image was processed with RegiStax and Photoshop.
This is a white light image of the sun taken with the Nikon D-100 showing sun spots.
This annular eclipse photo was taken in 1991 from the center line in El Paso TX.
This total eclipse photo shows the Diamond Ring effect.
This total eclipse photo shows what is called Totality. The moon has covered the entire disc of the sun.
This image show a total lunar eclipse taken from Houston TX.
This is an image of the sun, notice the black dot near the edge of the sun's surface. This is the planet Mercury passing between the Earth and the Sun. This called a Transit.
This image was taken with the Nikon D-100 digital camera.
This image is showing a conjunction of, the Moon, Saturn, and Jupiter.
This image is showing Saturn coming out from behind the Moon.