Welcome to our world of photography of the day and 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 Wide Angle Lenses, to state-of-the-art computer controlled large homebuilt astrographs, our goal is to record the endless beauty of the night sky on CCD,CMOS, and DSLR 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.

Updated: 1/19/25

Latest 2024 Images Down Below this Category breakout table!
 Galaxies
Comets Archive
  Az Aurora
  Dark Nebula
Southern Hemisphere Astroimages
Open Clusters
 Emission
 Reflection
 Planetaries 
 Globulars
Enhanced Hydrogen Galaxies Showcase
Daytime Time Solar Imaging
 Digital Aurora Cam
    10" f/3.9 GSO Astrograph
DSLR Imaging
Clear Creek Canyon Observatory (Happy Jack, Az)
 Birch Mesa Observatory (Payson, Az)    
Amateur Telescope Making Projects - ATM
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 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 2025 Images:
M38 region 1/19/25
Comet Atlas G3 at 3days past perihelion 1/16/25
Comet Atlas G3 at 2days past perihelion 1/15/25
Comet Atlas G3 at 1 day past perihelion 1/14/25
Comet Atlas G3 at Perihelion 1/13/25
Comet Atlas G3 in broad daylight near the Sun 1/12/25
Comet Atlas G3 very low in Morning! 1/11/25
M45 with RASA 1/7/25
Sharpless 2-72 in Aquilla 1/2/25
Payson Aurora 1/2/25
2024 Images:
Avanti-Hunter 1 12/26/24
First Test Shot with new ASI6200MM 12/22/24
Sh2-101 the Tulip Nebula in Cygnus 12/18/24
Sh2-129 in Cepheus 12/15/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS "Last Shot 2" ? 12/6/24
Sh2-88 in Cygnus 12/5/24
My youngest moon yet! 12/1/24
IC1396 - Wide field Cepheus Nebulosites 11/30/24
IC1319- The Butterfly Nebula in Cygnus 11/21/24
M24-M17 with Samyang 135mm 11/16/24
DWB111 - Propeller Nebula in Cygnus 11/06/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS "Last Shot" ? 10/31/24
NGC253 Rectified 11/1/24
Sh2-119 in Cygnus 10/24/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 4 panel panorama 10/20/24
IC1318-gamma Cyg with Samyang 135 f/2 10/17/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 10/13/24 with 35mm lens
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 10/14/24 with 135 Samyang
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 10/13/24 with RASA 8
Payson Aurora again Kp was 8 10/10/24
Sh2-54 in Serpens 10/11/24
Payson Aurora 10/7/24
M6 & Sh2-12 10/6/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS in the DAYTIME along with Venus and Moon. 10/4/24
Ultra Thin 1.1% moon Test for sky conditions 10/3/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 10/2/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 10/1/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 9/27/24
Stephensen 1 the Delta Lyra Cluster 9/30/24
Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Morning Rising Sequence 9/23/24
The Scutum Star Cloud From Happy Jack 9/20/24
M8 - M20 Two Part Panorama with the 10" from Payson 9/15/24
The Handle of the Pipe Nebula in Ophiuchus 9/10/24
Solar post flare loops! 9/1/24
Comet Olbers and M64 8/25/24
Antares to Rho dust 8/22/24
IC4628 The Shrimp Nebula in Scorpius 8/15/24
B72 - Snake with Eggs in Ophiuchus 8/11/24
IC4592 The Blue Horse Head in Scorpius 8/1/24
From Antares to Rho Ophiuchi First Samyang official image 7/25/24
M107 & Sh2-27 in Ophiuchus 7/16/24
Sharpless 2-36 Molecular Cloud in Ophiuchus 7/12/24
Comet 13P / Olbers In the western Sky 7/2/24
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS Final shot before Peri helion. 7/4/24
Sharpless 2-1 In Scorpius 6/24/24
Mu Cephi with Surprise IRAS Planetary Nebula! 6/20/24
IC2118 in Eridanus RASA from Happy Jack 6/11/24
Abell 21 in Gemini with RASA 8 from Happy Jack 6/7/24
IC443/444 RASA 5/29/24
Comet TA 5/27/24 NEW CAMERA!
M35 and NGC2158 5/22/24
Comet Panstarrs S3 over DWB111 in Cygnus 5/14/24
Massive Arizona Aurora 5/10/24
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 5/10/24
IC447 region in Monoceros 5/8/24
Sharpless 2-308 The Dolphin Head nebula 4/24/24
Comet Panstarrs S3 over IC1318a in Cygnus 4/29/24
Leo I Dwarf Galaxy 4/18/24
Comet Tsuchinshan-ATLAS 4/13/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 4/13/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 4/9/24
Comet Panstarrs S3 passes C399 3/30/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 4/2/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 3/29/24
NGC2451-77 Double cluster in Puppis 3/28/24
Abell 31 Planetary neb in Cancer 3/20/24
Sharpless 224 in Auriga 3/15/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 3/1/24
Canopus from Payson 2/28/24
Double Cluster with new RASA 8 - Mount Guiding Test - 2/12/24
Comet Pons/Brooks 2/12/24
Comet 62P in Virgo 2/11/24
Comet Kushida 2/4/24 six part montage
Comet Pons/Brooks 2/4/24
M78 in an Ocean of Hydrogen 1/24/24
IC348, B3, B4 1/18/24
NGC281 super deep 1/10/24