TED'S ASTROPIX:
TEXAS STAR PARTY 2006!!!

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(Page Created:  4 May 2006)

        Restoration project No. 1:  I decided to start from the end and create a page about the most recent astro-event on the calendar.  What else could it be except the 2006 TEXAS STAR PARTY?  Held at the magnificent, sprawling, Texas-sized Prude Guest Ranch, located five miles west of historic Fort Davis, Jeff Davis County, in the Davis Mountains of west Texas.  My journal will follow later, along with CCD astro-images taken with my recently acquired SBIG ST-8 camera.  This edition was truly special as I had a particularly welcome guest, my older son, accompany me on his first Texas experience.  Click on this link to read his TSP Guest Journal.

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Texas Star Party Images

M17 "The Swan" Emission Nebula in Scutum.  4x5 min. integrations, stacked with MaxIm DL v. 4.  Taken with a SBIG ST-8, C-11 and G-11 in the morning hours of April 30, 2006.  (Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)

M83 Spiral Galaxy in Hydra.  4x5 min. integrations, stacked with MaxIm DL v. 4.  Taken with a SBIG ST-8, C-11 and G-11 in the morning hours of April 30, 2006.  (Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)

M8 "The Lagoon" Emission Nebula in Sagittarius.  4x5 min. integrations, stacked with MaxIm DL v. 4.  Taken with a SBIG ST-8, C-11 and G-11 in the morning hours of April 30, 2006.  (Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)

More to come as I find time to write and process!

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