RAC Member Astro-Photos This page is dedicated to the Astro-Photographs taken by club members.  If any other club members wish to submit their astro-photos please contact Jim Burnell. Check Out: Jim Burnell's CCD Images - CCD Imaging Winter Star Party 2002 - Digital imaging Dom Morelli's Astro-Pics - This page may take a while to load but it's worth it! Bill Thys' widefield Milky Way - Astrophotos taken while on a trip to New Mexico. Bill Thys' Mars sketches - Made in 2003 . Ken Blumberg - Ken's astrophotos shot at Wawayanda July '02.  WARNING: Big page! Jeremy Pardo - Lunar Image

Club Member Connections

Some of our club members have their own websites you can browse. Here are three we know of. Please let us know if you have your own site we can link to. Thanks !

• Jim Burnell - CCD Images taken with a variety of cameras and telescopes
• Dan Roman - Some shots of major comets from the previous decade
• Roland Roberts - astrofoto.org, as the web page says "Here you will find the fruits of our hobby. Well, for Maria it is a hobby; for Roland it is closer to an obsession. Still, this is where you will find some of the fruits of that work."
• David Trapani - The "Intelligent Life Observatory".

Want to add your web page of astrophotos here? contact Jim Burnell.

Lunar eclipse November 8, 2003 by Dom Morelli

Aurora activity over Northern NJ
April 6, 2000 approx. 20:00 to 21:00 ET

A coronal mass ejection (CME) from the Sun put on quite a show in Earth's magnetosphere for about an hour on April 6th.  It was a Thursday evening and my son and I were coming back from a Den meeting just after 8 pm.  We both saw the unusual sky.  Having only previously seen a meager auroral display in Canada once, I did not know what it was until I saw the ribbons and streamers.  I rushed inside to get the cameras, both happened to have Kodak Max 400 film in them.   I hastily set up the tripod and took some 30 second exposures while my son and I marveled at the brilliance of the colors and the slowly changing sky!  Shots were taken with a 50mm f1.8 and 28-80mm f4.5 zoom in a very light polluted sky in Bergen County.

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Aurora images Copyright © 2000 by Dan Roman

Bill Thy's widefield Milky Way

Take a look at Bill Thys' widefield Milky Way astrophotos taken while on a trip to New Mexico. These were taken with a medium format camera (6X4.5 CM) using a normal lens (75 MM F.L.) using a Takahashi mount and guided with a 3" refractor for 20 Minutes on Kodak Pro 400 (ISO 400) film, normal processing. Thanks for submitting your shots, Bill, for us to enjoy.

Jupiter On Parade

Jupiter 09/12/98

Photo by Alan Traino and Tom Massey. Olympus D-340L, 10" Reflector working at 300 X, 2X digital magnification. Left photo is original image, right photo is enhanced version in Photoshop.

Jupiter from Shady Pines Campground using an Olympus D340L digital camera and 10" reflector. Photo by T. Massey, September 19, 1998. The Great Red Spot is located in each image close to the central meridian.