Urban Astro Images Web Page - New Mexico Skies

Deepsky Objects with Vesta Webcam by Steve Barkes

Steve works from the desert near Socorro and Upham, NM
His usual equipment is a 10" LX200 with a SC modified Vesta webcam. For bright objects like M42, Steve uses an 80mm StellaVue refractor and webcam.



The Great Pegasus Cluster M15 September 7, 2002 13 stacked exposures of 10 seconds each	The Great Nebula in Orion M42 September 22, 2002 51 stacked exposures of 4 seconds each using a StellaVue 80mm refractor for telescope

The Lagoon Nebula in Sagittarius M8 August, 2002	The Crab Nebula in Taurus M1 August, 2002 Captured only 7 usable exposures

Made at New Mexico Skies Guest Observatory May 2002

By John Settle

Following images all made at New Mexico Skies Guest Observatory during the night of May 13/14 from Dome 1. Telescope was a 14" Celestron SCT on a GT-1100S Bisque Paramount, set up for CCD imaging with an SBIG ST-9E CCD camera. Telescope controlled with "The Sky" software and imaging done with CCDSoft by Software Bisque. This was my first session with advanced CCD equipment and the images were made as part of an advanced astro-imaging class given by Mike Rice at the guest observatory.