Photos taken at Blue Canyon, California on 11th Sept 1999.
The film used is Kodak Max 800ASA.
Camera: Nikon FM10
Piggyback on C8 and guided with 12mm illuminated recticle on Losmandy GM8 mount.
 
 

PLANET
Saturn:
Here's an image of Saturn. I took it through
my colleague scope, Scott. He has a 12 inch LX200 telescope. I just added a 5x barlow
to increase the F ratio to F/50. That's equivalent to more than 15000mm focal length!
1 second exposure.
You should see the planet through the scope. It's truly fantastic!

STAR CLUSTERS
Pleiades (M45)
Here's a 15 mins shot of Pleiades (M45) with my Sigma 200mm lens at F6. Even at this short exposure,
the blue nebulosity surrounding the stars are quite apparent.

NEBULAE

Lagoon Nebula (M8, below) and Trifid Nebula (M20, above). 26 mins shot with my 200mm
lens but accidentally setting it at a smaller aperture. Too bad ;-(
 

One of the best deep sky object, the Orion Nebula (M42) in the constellation of Orion, of course.
Taken with my C8 at F/10 (that's 2000mm focal length) for 15mins. I will redevelop this image.
I can see more detail in the negative.

Here's the enlarge version of the California Nebula. Still too faint to be
seen with great detail on this 200mm F6 of 20mins exposure.
 

WIDE-ANGLE PHOTOS OF VARIOUS OBJECTS

Here's the image of the constellation of Orion.
See if you can find M42. (sorry, no prize if you are successful).
It was taken with my 50mm lens at F2. A 20 mins exposure.

Whoa, I'm getting dizzy here! Just too many stars, I'm lost! Oh, I know where the
camera is pointing at. How can I miss that? This is an image of Cygnus. The red patch
of light at centre left side of the image is known as North American Nebula. Doesn't it
really look like North America?
Taken with 50mm F/2 lens for 20 mins.

Here's an image with three interesting objects. The compact star clusters is Pleiades (M45).
California Nebula is the reddish patch on the left and not so noticeable is the star cluster of
Taurus, the Bull. (lower right). Click here if you don't know where to find those objects.

This is a photo taken with the camera pointing at the center of our galaxy, Milky Way.
Here the stars appears to be the highest and densest in the sky.

GALAXY
This is a 15mins, 50mm F/2 image of Andromeda Galaxy (M31) seen at upper left.
In the print, I can also see the Pinwheel Galaxy (M33) but not clearly in this scan
image. Click here if you don't know where those two objects are located at.
 
 

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