M44 - The Beehive Cluster

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 40 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

Tycho Crater - This tremendous impact created ejecta for hundreds of miles creating visible rays emanating  from the ridge of the crater.

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 18 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Mare Crisium, Mare Tranquillitatis (lower center)

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 12 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Plato Crater, Montes Alpes (on the edge of Plato) and Mare Frigoris (Center)

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 12 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Mare Imbrium - Archimedes and Plato craters, note the position of the Moon.  The difference from the picture above is the result of seasons, the picture above was taken in January, this one was taken in August. 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 19 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Mare Imbrium - Archimedes and Plato craters (Plato crater is barely visible at the 1 O’clock position)  

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 35 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Mare Humorium (Sea of Moisture)

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 18 Frames @ F/5.4, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Tycho Crater - This tremendous impact created ejecta for hundreds of miles creating visible rays emanating  from the ridge of the crater.

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 18 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

Tycho Crater - This tremendous impact created ejecta for hundreds of miles creating visible rays emanating  from the ridge of the crater.

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 18 Frames @ F/5.2, Nikon D60 6.1MP camera

M16 - The Eagle Nebula   - 6" Astrotech RC telescope, AP Mach1 mount, 2 hour exposure, SBIG ST-2000XCM Color Camera

August 5th 2011

M104 The Sombrero Galaxy - 6" Astrotech RC telescope, AP Mach1 mount, 1 hour, 30 minute exposure, SBIG ST-2000XCM Color Camera

June 25th 2011

The Horsehead Nebula

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 1 hour exposure stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

The Rosette Nebula

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 20 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M103 - Open Cluster

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 20 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M81 - Bode's Galaxy

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 38 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M74 -

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 50 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M63 - The Sunflower Galaxy

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 40 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M57 - The Ring Nebula

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 24 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M51 - The Whirlpool Galaxy

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 55 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M50 - Open Cluster in Monoceros (The first color CCD image I captured)

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 8 Minutes stacked with LRGB filters Meade DSI Pro camera

M45 - The Pleaides

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 44 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M42 - The Great Orion Nebula

6 Inch Astrotech Ritchey Chrétien Scope, AP Mach1 Mount, 42 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M37 - Open Star Cluster (The first CCD image I ever took)

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 4 Minutes stacked Meade DSI Pro Monochrome camera

M33 - The Triangulum Galaxy 

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 2 hours, 45 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M31 - The Andromeda Galaxy (plus M32 & M110)

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 1 hour, 15 minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula - Planetary Nebula

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 22 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M27 - The Dumbbell Nebula

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 22 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M20 - The Trifid Nebula (slightly North of the Lagoon Nebula)

- 6"Astrotech RC, AP Mach1 Mount, 4hrs, 10 minute exposure stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera.

M17 - The Omega Nebula

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 17 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M15 - Globular Cluster

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 10 Minutes stacked Meade DSI Pro camera, 2 minutes thru LRGB filters

M13 - The Hercules Cluster

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 10 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M8 - Wide field view of The Lagoon Nebula 

- 66mm Astrotech Refractor piggybacked on a 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 18 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M8 - Heart of the The Lagoon Nebula 

- 12" Meade LX90 GPS, 12 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera

M1 - The Crab Nebula - Located in the constellation Taurus

12" Meade LX90 GPS, 12 Minutes stacked SBIG ST-2000XCM single shot color camera