| I took this photo on August 12, 2005 at
the HAS site in Columbus, Texas. I had placed my Canon Rebel on the back of my TOA 130 to capture this image. The image was processed in Photoshop. The image is one .125 second image. |
 Lunar Image (Full size 29KB) |
| Here is my newest image that I took out at
the H.A.S. site on August 13th. Both Images were taken with the Tak TOA 130 telescope and a ST-8XE CCD camera. Combined, stacked, stretched and processed in Maxin DL. Final processing levels and curves in Photoshop. The first image is 10 ea X 300 sec Luminance. The second image is a combination of L,R,G with no blue (clouds rolled in). 10 ea x-300 sec Luminance, 6 ea x 300 sec Red, 1 ea x 300 sec Green. |
| This is a grayscale only image of M-8
"Lagoon Nebula". I was unable to get the color due to the clouds moving in at 4:30 AM. It is located in the constellation Sagittarius and is well placed for viewing at this time. This image was taken on 06/12/2005 at the Rafter M Ranch in Hockley, TX. The equipment was my TOA-130, NJP mount, and the SBIG ST-8XE CCD camera. The image consist of 10 each 240 secons images combined in MaxLn DL with some light stretching. The image was then processed in Photoshop. |
 M8 Grayscale (Full size 45KB) |
| This is my first attempt on M-16 "The
Eagle". This was taken at the Rafter M Ranch in Hockley, TX on 06/11/2005. My equipment was a TOA-130, NJP mount, ST-8XE camera. The image consist of 10 each 240 seconds images combined in Maxln DL with some stretching. The image was then processed in Photoshop. |
 M16 Grayscale (Full size 78KB) |
| This is my first attempt on M-16 "The
Eagle" colored. This image was taken on 06/11/2005 and it consist of 10 each 240 seconds L, 4 each 240 second R, 4 each of 240 G, & 4 each of 240 second B. |
 M16 Color (Full size 132KB) |
| I went outside last night 06/07/2005 at
8:00 PM at the Rafter M Ranch in Hockley, TX and started looking for the Thin Crescent Moon. At 8:38:35 I located it about 20 degrees above the horizon. I took this photo with my Canon Rebel 300D and 300 mm telephoto lens. I had my camera mounted on a tripod with my Unimount Light Basic at 8:52PM. The image was processed in Photoshop. |
 Crescent Moon (Full size 5KB) |
| On the
morning of 12/07/2004, I took this photo with my Canon Rebel of Jupiter about 1.5 degrees to the upper left from a very beautiful crescent moon. |
| Hello Club Members, Well, I finally got some time to construct two web pages
on my website, and have posted the TSP pictures that I took out there this year. I have provided a link for your enjoyment. Hope you enjoy, and plan to attend next year if you didn't go this year. Click here: Texas Star Party 2004 |
 (Full size 22KB) Entrance to Prude Ranch |
 (Full size 22KB) Upper Field |
 (Full size 20KB) Sleeping Telescopes |
 (Full size 61KB) Here is a moon mosaic taken by Ken Miller. He used a LX200 8 inch with an SBIG ST-237A. This is a combination of 6 exposures, each for .001 seconds. |
 (Full size 17KB) Here is another image of the Apennine and other mountain ranges. |
| See these CCD images taken by Ken Miller with his LX200
8" and his SBIG-ST237A CCD camera. Note the features inside the craters. |
 (Full size 16KB) Here is an image from Ken showing Jupiter and 3 moons. Taken with his LX200 8" and SBIG ST237A CCD camera, you can see details on the surface of Jupiter and 3 moons. One of the hardest things about taking images of Jupiter and its moons is to get a long enough exposure to get the moons but no "over exposing" Jupiter. There are more specifications in the image. |
 (Full Size19KB) And here is one of Jupiter itself. |
| Ken recently got some new toys (an SBIG ST-237A CCD
camera) and he has been out every clear night recently. Here are some moon pics taken recently. |
