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Images From Berry Observatory - Before and During Construction Some images were taken using a fixed tripod and DSLR camera, some using a webcam through one of the telescopes, and some directly through the scope - All photos were prior to mounting the telescopes on the Observatory Pier - See Details |
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Comet Hyukatake - Although it was only visible for a week or so, Comet Hyukatake was an awesome spectacle from dark skies. It's dim sword-like tail stretched for more than 40 degrees across the sky! |
3/27/1996
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Nikon FA 35mm Film Camera
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FujiFilm 800 ASA Film, Standard fixed tripod, Auto Micro Nikkor 105mm f/2.8 lens at f/3.5 - Thirty second exposure. |
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Comet Hyukatake and The Big Dipper What an incredible site! As the Comet passed very close to the North Star (Bright star at five-o-clock from the head of the comet) it's tail swept back into the bowl of the Big Dipper. |
3/30/1996 | Nikon FA 35mm Film Camera | FujiFilm 800 ASA Film, Standard fixed tripod, Auto Nikkor 50mm f/1.2 lens at f/2.0 - Thirty second exposure. |
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Lunar Halo |
03/20/2008 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Sigma 15-30mm Zoom set to 15mm. Caused by reflection from ice crystals high in the atmosphere, this halo covered more than 30 degrees of the sky. |
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Day Moon - For my Friend Steve |
03/16/2008 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Vivitar 120-600mm f/5.6-8 Zoom lens at 600mm. This equates to a 900mm focal length on a DSLR due to the sensor size. Image was taken more than an hour before sunset. |
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Total Lunar Eclipse Collage |
02/20/2008 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Taken through an AstroTech 80mm f/7 APO refractor. Scope was mounted on a standard camera tripod. Images taken from 8:40pm 02/20 through 12:10am 2/21. Temp was 6 degreess F! |
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Comet 17P/Holmes glides past Mirfak, the brightest star in the constellation Perseus. The comet was EASILY visible with the naked eye. |
11/18/2007 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Taken through an AstroTech 80mm f/7 APO refractor. Manually guided for five 2- minute exposures, then stacked and processed in PhotoShop CS3 |
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Comet 17P/Holmes continues to expand as the coma is now reported to be the size of the SUN! Quite a sight as the comet added a magnitude 4.5 "fuzzy star" to the constellation Perseus. |
11/08/2007 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Taken through a Celestron CGE1100 operating at 1760mm f/6.3 - Three 90 second exposures stacked in Registax and processed in Photoshop CS3 |
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Comet 17P/Holmes with its huge coma was an easy naked-eye object tonight. Reports are that the coma is now as large as the planet Jupiter! |
11/03/2007 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Taken through an Astrotech 80mm f/6.7 APO refractor. Unguided - three 1-minute exposures stacked in Registax and processed in Photoshop CS3 |
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Crescent Moon with Venus |
05/19/2007 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Nikon 80-400 f/4.5 VR Zoom at 400mm. Fixed tripod 1 sec exposure at f/4.5 |
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Waxing Gibbous moon shows incredible detail along the terminator. Seeing was exceptionally good with sporadic light cirrus clouds passing by. This was "first light" with the new ORION StarShoot II Solar System Imager. |
11/18/2007 | Orion StarShoot II Solar System Imager | 40 second video stacked and slightly processed in Registax. Final image used 265 of the 400 frames captured |
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TOTALITY! |
11/10/2003 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Taken through my Celestron CGE1100 scope with an f/6.3 focal reducer. Overall I shot 120 photos during the eclipse. It was really beautiful! |
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SATURN |
04/11/2004 | Philips ToUcam PRO | Celestron CGE1100 scope @ prime focus with 2x Barlow. 800 frame AVI video capture at 10fps. I then stacked the best 100 frames using Registax |
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JUPITER and Great Red Spot |
12/23/2007 | Philips ToUcam PRO | Celestron CGE1100 scope @ prime focus with 2x Barlow. 900 frame AVI video capture at 10fps. I then stacked the best 90 frames using Registax |
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MARS during one of it's closest approaches to Earth. |
09/07/2003 | Philips ToUcam PRO | Celestron CGE1100 scope @ prime focus with 2x Barlow. 1200 frame AVI video capture at 10fps. I then stacked the best 150 frames using Registax |
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Venus |
04/11/2004 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | 300 frames (30 Seconds) .AVI captured through the CGE1100. Best 25 frames stacked using Registax. Venus was only about 20 degrees from the horizon, and the "seeing" was horrible. |
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SPECTACULAR Aurora Borealis AND a Perseid Meteor |
11/21/2003 | FujiFilm S2PRO DSLR | Driving home from work I noticed several glowing clouds in the Southern Sky. I pulled over, set up my camera and tripod, and photographed this spectacle for more than an hour! |
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JUPITER - Excellent seeing resulted in this highly detailed shot of the Gas Giant |
04/12/2004
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Philips ToUcam PRO
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900 frame AVI at 10fps, then stacking the best 150 using Registax |
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Comet Hale-Bopp, The Pleiades and Waxing Crescent Moon |
04/12/1997 | Nikon FA 35mm Film Camera | 135mm f/1.8 Lens 30-Second Exposure on Fuji 800 Film |
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Solar Eclipse Montage |
04/27/1997 | Nikon FA 35mm Film Camera | Taken through my Astro-Physics Starfire Refractor - Photos taken every 6 minutes throughout annular eclipse - Assembled in Photoshop |
