VC Astrophotography

Digital Camera Astrophotography           NEW: Conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn 2020-1221 NOAA satellite animation - California fires 2014-0504 Planetary conjunctions 2014-0502 Annular solar eclipse 12-0520 Lunar total eclipse 11-1210 Green Flash sunset 11-1209 Comet 103/p Hartley NOAA satellite animation of 2007 California fires Transit of Mercury Photo Observing Log 23 FEB Supernova 2006x, RS Oph RS Ophiuchus stellar outburst Supernova 2006x Photo Observing Log 11 AUG Perseid meteor shower, supernova 2005cs Supernova 2005cs 10 MAR Messier Half-Marathon Asteroid 4179 Toutatis approach second session, animated gif [7.3mb] Asteroid 4179 Toutatis approach animated gif [1.1mb] Comets NEAT C/2001 Q4 and LINEAR 2003K4 Venus Transit    These galleries are now loaded: Moon images@ Sun images Mercury images Venus images Mars images Asteroid images Jupiter images Saturn images Uranus images Neptune images Pluto photos Comets Messier and deep sky objects Stars Including binaries Variable Stars Novae and supernovae Quasars Conjunctions Constellations Meteor Showers +2005 Perseids Artificial Satellites Manned Space Exploration Section Miscellaneous Images Includes atmospherics 2004 Mercury-Mars Conjunction 10 JUL 2004 Eclipses@ Film Archive@ Includes total solar eclipse of Jul 1991    Some of the equipment used to get these images    Review: 8" Helios Explorer 800mm f/4    Review: 8" Orion Skyview Pro 8 OTA 1000mm f/4.9    Review: Meade LXD55 Goto GEM Mount    How-to: Adapt a telephoto lens to an EQ mount    Photo observing logs: 20 MAR 2004  Messier Marathon 10 JUL 2004  Mercury-Mars Conjunction 11 AUG 2004 Perseid meteor shower 05 AUG 2004 Supernova 2004dj 13 DEC 2004Geminid meteor shower, Comet Machholz    Archived material:  Photo Observing Logs  Articles    What in the world is VC Astro? Images are copyright ©2002-2021 Paul C. Martinez & Philip Brents. They may be used for any educational or scientific use  - however, please reference or link to this page if you do so.