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Welcome to our world of photography of the night skies from the Birch Mesa Observatory in Payson at the base of the Mogollon Rim, and the Clear Creek Canyon Observatory on top of the Colorado Plateau in Northern Arizona. From the stationary and Schmidt cameras, to state-of-the-art computer controlled large homebuilt astrographs, our goal is to record the endless beauty of the night sky on CCD, DSLR, Film, and digital detectors to share with you and others. Here you can find the best and hardest earned images that we have captured of the night sky.
Note: Adjust your monitors brightness so each step in the grey scale below is clearly seen, other wise images may not appear correctly rendered.
Latest 2010 Images:
Perseids 2010
Solar Activity 8/8/10
Solar Activity 7/25/10
M6 in Scorpius 7/22/10
NGC6441 & G Scorpi 7/18/10
M7 and its companions 7/10/10
Antares and NGC6144 7/8/10
Lagoon Nebula with new astrograph 7/5/10
Comet McNaught 6/20/10
Cygnus Ultra Deep 6/20/10
M53 in Coma Ber 5/31/10
Comet Wild 2 5/22/10
Comet Vales 5/16/10
Saturn with 8" 5/15/10
Leo I in Leo 5/8/10
M81/M82 Galaxies in Uma 4/20/10
M67 in Cancer 4/18/10
M47 in Puppis 4/10/10
M46 & NGC2438 4/3/10
Todays sunspots 3/28/10
Leo Trio 3/27/10
Comet SW-1 3/18/10
M44 Star colors 3/20/10
M78 Field in Orion 3/16/10
NGC869/884 in Perseus 3/13/10
IC443 in Gemini 3/7/10
NGC1893/IC410 In Auriga 2/19/10
Orionis First Light for 8" f/4 2/18/10
M45 in Taurus First Light for 8" f/4 2/18/10
NGC2024 in Orion 1/16/10
M34 with the XTi 1/2/10
Comet Shoemaker Levy 1/9/10
M35 with the XTi 2/2/10
NGC2359 in Canis Major 2/11/10
The new sunspot 1039 01/01/10
M43/43 1/10/10
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