Blue Ridge Astronomy Club Member's Astrophotography

Blue Ridge Astronomy Club
Member's Astrophotography Page

"I know that I am mortal and the creature of a day; but when I search out the massed wheeling circles of the stars, my feet no longer touch the earth, but, side by side with Zeus himself, I take my fill of ambrosia, the food of the gods." -- Claudius Ptolemaeus

Comet Hale-Bopp, taken on April 7, 1997, in the evening, 35mm camera with 50mm lens on tripod, Fuji Super G 800 ISO/ASA,
f/1.4, 30 second exposure.
Photographed by Jean Krason, Club Secretary

This partial solar eclipse was photographed in Lynchburg on December 25, 2000. It reached just over 50% occultation at 12:37pm local time. The eclipse was part of the Saros 122 family. The photo was taken through a Celestron 102mm Refractor. Use of a 2X extender yielded an effective f/stop of f/10, at 1/250th sec. The scope was equipped with Thousand Oaks Black Polymer solar filter material.
Photographed by Michael Gillette

These were taken September 21, 2002, at the Ivy Hill Golf Course in Forest, Virginia, using a
Pentax MX 35mm and Kodak 400 Gold. I used both prime focus and eyepiece projection at f/10.
Photographed by Jim Dishman, Club President

	Saturn, photographed from my front yard in Forest on December 29, 2002, at 10 pm, using an unmodified ToUcam Pro webcam, with a Televue 2.5x Powermate Barlow, 23 images stacked in Astrostack, using a Meade 10" LX200. Photographed by Jim Dishman, Club President

	Jupiter, taken 4/27/03. 46 images, stacked in Astrostack. Unsharp mask, minor brightness and contrast adjustments. Post processed in Photoshop 7.0. Notice the moon Io in the left of the image. Photographed by Jim Dishman, Club President

	Moon, taken 11/13/02 with an Olympus C-3020Z through a Televue Oracle 3" Apochromatic Refracter and a 32mm Televue Plössl eyepiece. (It's a raw image from the camera, with no digital processing.) Photographed by Neil Hobbs, Club Member

	Mars! Of the little over 2000 pictues of Mars that I took, this is a composite of the best 600. Photographed by Jim Dishman, Club President

	Transit of Venus - 6/8/2004 Taken from Apple Orchard overlook, 3950 feet elevation. Telescope was a Meade ETX-70 Refractor with a class A glass solar filter from Scopetronix. Camera was a Logitech Quickcam 4000. Photographed by Dennis Layne, Club Member

	Composite photo Composite Photo of Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn and the Moon takenover a 9 month period SAC 7 Imager, Prime Focus 10" LX 50 F10 Photographed by Brian Munson


Club photo taken after a meeting at Liberty University with an Olympus D-460Z digital camera. Some editing done, mostly removing a ceiling support pole that was in front of us! Photographed by Graham Wiatt, Webmaster

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