The Night Sky


These images of the night sky were taken with a Nikon D200 piggybacked on a telescope on Kitt Peak.




The Andromeda Galaxy M31




An Image of the Milky Way toward the center of our galaxy. The brightest star like objects is the planet Jupiter






Below are images of the night sky shot with a Nikon D70s attached to a Televue 76mm. This was a first attempt to capture the beauty of the night sky with our digital cameras





The Great Nebula in Orion M42





This first shot is the moon a couple days past first quarter. The camera was attached to a refractor riding on the main telescope giving a focal length of about 500mm ISO 200 shooting at 1/200th of a sec




The Rosette Nebula NGC2244




The Andromeda Galaxy, M31, which is 2.4 million light years from earth with its companions M32 and M110