Film Astrophotography

Long Telephoto Piggyback Photography

 
SkyNews Conjunction
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This pic was published in Sky News Magazine in Spring of 2003. It is the conjunction of the Moon, Venus and Mars through a 400mm ED Nikkor. Veil Nebula from a 40min shot with my 400mm Nikkor ED lens. This is a recovered version of my Gamma Cygni shot with the 400mm f/3.5 ED Nikkor. I used Carlos Milovic's ABE to remove vignetting.
M31  M31 Lagoon
This is my first decent M31 photo with the heavy lens on the light mount - not easy to balance. M31 this time with the 400mm ED lens
Overcoming my balance problems and finally got a good one of the Lagoon & Trifid.

Wide Angle Piggyback Photography

Cygnus Cassiopeia Cygus with D70
Cynus w 105mm Nikkor
Cassiopeia w 105mm Nikkor
Cygnus w Nikon D70 and 18-70mm Zoom
Orion 50mm Supra 400 Orion 50mm Supra 400 - Chris Schur Orion 50mm Supra400
Orion and Monoceros with Nikon F2 and 50mm 1.4 lens at 2.8. 20 minutes. Supra 400 - Co-processed with Serge Theberge. Orion and Monoceros with Nikon F2 and 50mm 1.4 lens at 2.8. 20 minutes. Supra 400 - same image as at left but this time processed from scratch by Chris Schur using PixInsight. Orion wide-field w 50mm Nikkor and Supra400
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My best eyepiece projection shot of the moon taken with my SPC102 and 26mm Plossl This one is neat: 26 hour old crescent taken at prime focus with my SPC102.

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