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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:
IC443 in Gemini 3/7/10
2009 Images:
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
The Helix Nebula 11/01/09
The Dividing Cell Nebula in Cygnus 10/18/09
The Eagle Zoomify version 9/27/09
The Swan Nebula in Scutum 8/16/09
The South Polar Region 7/25/09
Eta Carina wide field from Caboolture 8/15/09
Scorpius rising in the North East from Caboolture, QLD 7/18/09
Southern Skies over Palm Caboolture, QLD 7/9/09
NGC6543 in Draco 6/14/09
M5 Globular Cluster 5/11/09
Jupiter in the Summer Milkyway 6/22/09
Moon, M45, Mercury 4/27/09
Moon Venus conjunction 4/22/09
Comet Lulin with 400mm f/5 2/26/09w
Saturn nearly edge on in visible and UV 3/28/09
Comet Lulin Superimposed on the Gegenschein 2/26/09
Comet Lulin With Robotic Barn Door 2/20/09
Comet Lulin 2/4/09
Comet Kushida 2/1/09
The Crab Nebula Enhanced Hydrogen Comparison 1/20/09
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