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LXD55 / LXD75 mix - stacked!
(Added : 12/7/2004 Hits : 2532 Rating: 10 Votes: 2)
LXD55 SCT Mdified with internal flock and ultra flat black
Antares 8 x 50 mm Finder scope
Meade 90 mm f/10 Maksutov with erect 6 x 25 mm finder
LXD75 Equatorial mount
Meade Giant field tripod with modified mount, x and y bubble levels
Custom machined knobs, scope mounts and ballance weights (by me.)
2 Nikon camera bodies for film work
1 SBIG ST7E ccd
1 Meade Deep Sky Imager
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Gerry's rig!
(Added : 4/4/2006 Hits : 1299 Rating: 10 Votes: 2)
This my LXD75/SN8 UHTC Hypertuned, 80mm Orion Guidescope & Meade LPI with ScopeStuff piggyback kit, Orion Starshoot imager, Dew Buster controller with custom heaters, Kedrick primary mirror heater, etc.
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M45 The Pleiades Cluster
(Added : 5/1/2006 Hits : 875 Rating: 10 Votes: 2)
This is a single 40 minute exposure with Fujichrome 400F Provira using an Olympus OM-1.
The scope was hand guided with an Orion 910mm focal length guidescope.
Focusing was done with an STI Stiletto Ronchi focuser.
CF
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North American Nebula in Cygnus
(Added : 5/3/2006 Hits : 1084 Rating: 10 Votes: 2)
This image of NGC7000 in Cygnus is aptly names the North American Nebula due to it's shape. The photo was shot through a 135mm telephoto lens, piggybacked on my LXD75 8" SN. Manual guiding was done through the main scope.
The photograph was a 25 minute exposure on Kodak E200 slide film using an Olympus OM-1.
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Saturn 2006
(Added : 4/2/2006 Hits : 1227 Rating: 10 Votes: 2)
Taken with LXD75SN-10AT UHTC - Guided - over 4 nights, SBIG ST-402ME with color wheel and Meade LPI combining best segments (SBIG detail/LPI for some additional color.)
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M31 The Great Andromeda Galaxy
(Added : 12/6/2007 Hits : 244 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
This Galaxy is 220,000 light-years across and is located some 2.3 million light-years away. Looking similar to our Milky Way galaxy that we live in, Andromeda is of our closest neighbors and a member of the Local Group of galaxies. It is easily seen with the naked eyes from a dark site, but is breathtaking in a small telescope or binoculars, and appears larger than six times the diameter of the full Moon! The light that recorded this film image left Andromeda when the first humans called Homo Erectus evolved on earth over 2 million years ago!
This is a single 40-minute, unfiltered exposure with the Meade LXD75 8" Schmidt
Newtonian. The image was captured with an inexpensive, 26 year old Olympus
OM-1 using Fujichrome Provia 400F slide film. The scope was manually guided with
an Orion 910mm F/L guidescope.
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Solar_Composite in Hydrogen Alpha light
(Added : 6/20/2005 Hits : 605 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Our Sun taken thru an F:/6, 100mm refractor + Ha filter. 26mm Plossl and 6mm Ortho. Nikon CoolPix 5600 at 105mm telephoto equivalent. Would have used my Meade LPI, except the LCD was too weak to see in bright sunlight. Note to self: purchase a 5~6 meter USB extender cable for camera/laptop!
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Cygnus Wide-Field
(Added : 5/3/2006 Hits : 836 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
This wide angle image of Cygnus shows many deep sky objects from the North American Nebula to the Veil Nebula and many others. The photograph is a single 25 minute exposure with a 28mm lens with an Olympus OM-1 camera, using Fujicrome 400F Provia slide film. A minus-violet filter was used to reduce chromatic aberration. The camera was piggybacked on an LXD75 8" SN.
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M17 - Omega Nebula
(Added : 7/6/2005 Hits : 1007 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Meade LXD75 8" Schmidt Newtonian
45 Minute exposure, manually guided with an 80mm F/12 Refractor
Fiji-chrome 400 Provira
Olympus Om-1 with a stiletto focuser
Adobe Photoshop, Mac OSX
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Sirius
(Added : 3/30/2006 Hits : 535 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Here's a shot of Sirius taken 3/24/06 here in Lindenhurst, Long Island.
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My 3 Telescopes!
(Added : 6/16/2005 Hits : 1798 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Background: Celestron C11 SCT on Losmandy G-11 --- Piggyback on C11 is Orion 4" wide FOV Refractor. Cameras: SBIG ST-7e, Nikon D-70, Taurus Tracker film cam. Coronado 60mm HA filter for 4" scope.
Foreground: Meade LXD75-AR5.
Cameras: Meade DSI, Meade LPI, Afocal with 35mm Pentax body and Taurus Tracker 35mm body
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AR-6 with Guide Scope
(Added : 2/28/2005 Hits : 1357 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
My AR-6 with the Orion 80mm mounted and a bit of extra counterweight to balance it out. Didn't have enough space in the room to fully expand the legs for this pic.
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Jupiter - using LPI
(Added : 8/23/2005 Hits : 1098 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Jupiter using Meade LPI and LXD75 SN-10AT with UTCH
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M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula
(Added : 12/13/2006 Hits : 799 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Here is my first attempt at M27, The Dumbbell Nebula. This was taken 8/18/06 at Custer Observatory in Southold, NY. The hardware used was an LXD75 SN8, Orion Starshoot, Orion 80mm guidescope and a Meade LPI as the autoguider. Software used: Nebulosity, Meade Envisage and Photoshop CS.
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Saturn-032306-6-495
(Added : 3/30/2006 Hits : 826 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Saturn taken on 03/23/06 with lxd 75 10" LPI and 5x powermate stacked 495 images using Meade's enviage software and edited(not Stacked) in Registax.
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Globular Clusters in M31 Andromeda Galaxy
(Added : 12/6/2007 Hits : 336 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Like our own Milky Way, the Andromeda galaxy contains many globular clusters too. This photo identifies many of the suspected globulars within M31. This is a single 40 minute exposure with the Meade LXD75 8" f/4 Schmidt Newtonian using Fujichrome 400F Provia slide film. The photo was manually guided with a 910mm Orion guidescope. CLICK IMAGE to visit main website page and see this image in huge detail.
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NGC7293 Helix Nebula in Aquarius
(Added : 12/6/2007 Hits : 199 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
This photograph was captured with the Meade LXD75 SN8 and a single unfiltered 30 minute exposure with Kodak E200 slide film. The camera was my old Olympus OM-1 SLR. The exposure was manually guided with an Orion 910mm f/l guidescope.
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NGC666 Crescent Nebula
(Added : 12/6/2007 Hits : 95 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
Here is my shot of the very faint Crescent Nebula taken with the Meade LXD75 8" f/4 Schmidt Newtonian telescope and manually guided with an Orion 910mm f/l Guidescope. This is a 30 minute exposure on Kodak E200 slide film. the cameras was an Olympus OM-1 SLR and I used a Stiletto focuser to help achieve pinpoint focus.
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The Cosmic Scale
(Added : 12/6/2007 Hits : 246 Rating: 10 Votes: 1)
If you have a little trouble with angular sizes, here's a collage I created from three rolls of film I took. All the objects in this picture are scaled to the exact same size- so you can make an accurate comparison of sizes of objects in the sky - compared to the moon. All the objects where taken with the same scope, and same camera:
- Meade LXD75 8" SN
- Olympus OM-1, Fuji 400F and Kodak E200
- All exposures (except the Moon) where single 20 to 45 minute exposures.
Objects include M42/43 Orion Nebula, Double Cluster, M8 Lagoon Nebula, M17 Omega Nebula, M45 Pleiades, M20 Trifed Nebula, Crescent Nebula, M13 Globular Cluster, M57 Ring Nebula, M51 Whirlpool Galaxy, Luna, M27 Dumbell Nebula, M31 Andromeda Galaxy, M32 Galaxy near Andromeda, M101, Helix Nebula, M33 Triangulum Galaxy, Bubble Nebula, M110 Galaxy near Andromeda, M1 Crab Nebula, and Horsehead Nebula
To get a detailed 23" x 35" poster with labels, please visit my website and email me.
www.PetesAstrophotography.com
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