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
• 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".

 
Astroimages by Edward Lubat
Taken from a site in the Catskills. All were taken using a CGEM mount and a modified Canon T1i DSLR. All except the Comet Hartley at the Double Cluster were taken through an Astrotech RC8 (the grand prize that he won at NEIAC in 2009) The comet photo was taken through a WO FLT 98. Guiding using Starlight Express Lodestar and PHD guiding. Processing with Images Plus and Photoshop.
You can see more of his images at his website.

 
Winter Star Party 2002
by Tom Massey
Several RAC members attended the Winter Star party this past February. While there we spent a considerable amount of time observing planets and recording them as well. Below are two images of Jupiter and Saturn. Click on them to view a larger image.

These were images taken on video through a 14" Celestron using a Sony DCR TRV-9 digital video camera. The images are both composited images of 9 and ten frames, processed and stacked in AstroStack (freeware) and Adobe Photoshop. Photos by Tom Massey, Alan Traino and mark Hettinger all working in concert to get them. The planetary shots are afocal through a 55mm Plossl eyepiece using the zoom of the video camera to increase the apparent focal length of the system.

Below is a shot of the crown jewel of the southern sky, Omega Centauri. This is a hand held digital image through my 20" Reflector using an Olympus C-2100UZ camera afocal through an I3Piece intensified eyepiece. Click on the image to view a larger version.

 
Dom Morelli's Astro-Pics
The pictures below were taken by Dom Morelli using his 13 inch Dobsonian.

 
Bill Thy's widefield Milky Way and Mars Sketches
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.

 
Ken Blumberg's Astro-Pics
The pictures below were taken by Ken Blumberg at Wawayanda. These are more recent (better) shots than those that were up here for a couple of years. Ken used a Starlight MX7c single shot color CCD camera, 8 inch SCT LX200, PEC corrected, f3.3 Optec focal reducer, processed in Starlight MX7c software, then over to photoshop to contrast/brightness and maybe some cropping.

 
Jeremy Pardo - Lunar Image

 
Alan Traino and Tom Massey - Jupiter On Parade
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.