Astrophotography By J.P. Morgan

minerjp@comcast.net

Sandy, Utah

I'm new to this exciting field, so perhaps you can watch me grow and gain in expertise and experience. Your comments are always welcome, so please feel free to contact me via my E-Mail account.

October 23, 2005 Moon

Andromeda Galaxy This is what 300 billion stars look like. A work in progress--I'll get the elipitical shape next.

M-42 M43, Orion Oct 2005

I took a series of 8 second exposures with a Nikon Coolpix 995 camera and a Scopetronix 18mm eyepiece afocally coupled to the telescope. at f3.3. Telescope is a 10" Meade Newt on an equatorial mount. Images stacked in Registax and final processed in Photoshop 7. My first DSO.

M-15 Gobular Cluster

I took a series of about 20 exposures ranging from 8 seconds to 30 seconds with the Nikon Coolpix set up as with the Orion pictures. I adjusted exposure in Photoshop 7 before stacking with Registax and then final processing in Photoshop using a true unsharp mask with a duplicate copy of the image.

Coperinicus Closeup

Scopetronix 18mm, 2x Meade Barlow, 3x Nikon 995 zoom. 10" Meade Newt. Afocal 1/125 sequential exposures (4), stacked in Resistak and tweeked in Photoshop.

Saturn, October 2005. Not quite there yet, but getting close.

Andromeda (M-31) 17 Nov 05. A better effort.

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