Gary Field's Astronomy Page 

Total Lunar Eclipse (Oct. 27/28, 2004)
 Lunar Eclipse Collage

 Lunar Eclipse Animation

Partial Solar Eclipse (Dec. 25th, 2000)
Collage of my Solar eclipse pictures
Comet Hyakutake
  • The following pictures were taken from Plum Island, Newburyport, MA on March 23, 1996 between 10 and 11 PM EST (0300-0400 UTC), using Kodak Royal Gold 1000 film in a Pentax K1000 35 mm camera with a 85 to 210 mm zoom lens piggy backed onto a Meade 2045 telescope driven by a drive corrector. Polar alignment was not carefully done. The sky was very dark and it was about 25 deg F with a 20-30 MPH wind. (can you say BRRRRRRR!)
  • Comet Hyakutake at 210mm, 2 min. exposure
  • Comet Hyakutake at 210 mm, 5 min. exposure
  • Comet Hyakutake at 210 mm, 10 min. exposure
  • Comet Hyakutake at 100 mm, 10 min. exposure

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    Link to NASA's Hyakutake photo archive (including my pictures)

    Comet Hale-Bopp

    The following pictures were taken from Halibut Point, Rockport, MA on April 3, 1997 between 8 and 10 PM EST (0100-0200 UTC) using Kodak Royal Gold 1000 film in a Pentax K1000 35 mm camera piggy backed onto a Meade 2045 telescope driven by a drive corrector. The sky was moderately dark and it was about 30 deg. F with a 15-20 MPH wind.

    Comet Hale-Bopp at 210 mm, 5 min. exposure

    Comet Hale-Bopp at 210 mm, 5 min. exposure

    Comet Hale-Bopp at 85 mm, 5 min. exposure

    Link to NASA's Hale-Bopp photo archive (including my pictures)

    Areas of interest:

    Links to Other Astronomy Related sites

    Saturn Animation

    Sky and Telescope Magazine
    Chelmsford MA Clear Sky Clock
    Astronomy Picture of the Day
    Bad Astronomy Site (Debunking popular but untrue astronomy info)
    Solar and Heliospheric Observatory (SOHO) at NASA
    How to hunt comets using SOHO

    Updated December 21, 2004