Schurs Astrophotography

Updated 6/18/06

New LRGB Color Correction Article here !

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 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.

Galaxies	Emission	Reflection	PPlanetaries	Globulars	Open Clusters	Films	Robotic Barn Door
Comets	Planets	Lunar	Az Aurora	Meteors	Schmidt Camera	All Sky Cam	Aurora Cam
Equip Tutorial	10D Astro	Birch Mesa Observatory	Clear Creek Canyon Observatory	CCD Equipment	Software

Robotics		Infrared Arizona		Digital Arizona			Contact Us

Note: Adjust your monitors brightness so each step in the grey scale below is clearly seen, other wise images may not appear correctly rendered.

 



            
Saturn/Mars/M44
at with NEW setup!

            
Wargentin Crater -
Very Rare sighting


Jupiter and Ganymede
6/3/06


DSLR Polar Star trails
technique


M51 and then some
5/13/06


M101 and field galaxies
with SV80s


Comet SW3 and the Ring
5/7/06


NGC2903 in a New Light
5/4/06


All three Fragments
4/29/06


Comet SW3 More Green
4/29/06


Moon and Venus
4/24/06


Comet SW3 3 frags
4/22/06


Leo 1 with
SV80s


Comet SW3
4/19/06


Mars and M35
4/15/06


NGC2903 in the light of
HYDROGEN


Pojmansky 4/7/06

M46/M47 Deep Sky Assemblage 3/22/06	Sword of Orion First Guided shot with SV80s 3/19/06	M35 and NGC2158 3/25/06	First shots with FF/Corr on SV80s	Comet Pojmansky 3/3/06


Abell 21 - Medusa Neb
in Gemini 3/02/06


Comet Pojmansky in
The morning sky
2/27/06


VDB38 in Orion
2/26/06


First Test shots with
Stellarvue SV80s
2/25/06


The Waterfall and Chevron
Nebulas in Orion


M44 and Saturn
1/23/05


Abell 24
in Canis Minor


Sharpless 2-242
in Taurus


Bizarre IC423in Orion


PK221+461 in Leo


IC59 in Cass


Comet SW-1


Sharpless 2-235
in Auriga


Sharpless 2-235
in Auriga


IC1613 in Cetus
Local Group Galaxy resolved


Sharpless 112


NGC2403 in 
Camel


M61 in Virgo and friends


NGC4438 - The Eyes
Galaxies in Virgo

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