TED'S
ASTROPIX:
TEXAS
STAR PARTY 2009!!!
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Saker, Jr. All rights reserved.
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(Page Created: 3 June
2009)
Each successive Texas Star
Party seems to come and go faster and faster. This year's TSP was
held April 19 to 26. Once again, Craig Colbert beat me to the front
gate even though I arrived six hours earlier than I have ever
previously managed. Rather than sleep at the gate, we finagled our
way onto the ranch, and spent a cold, windy, clear night observing
with my ETX-90. This year, TSP graced us with four straight clear
nights, and five clear nights out of seven. I tried to put the time
to good use, and captured some images and completed John Waggoner's
Telescope Observing Club (5x5) and the Binocular List..... from
HELL!!!.
The guys from Celestron
(yes, that Celestron) brought a couple of new scopes to TSP.
Six weeks later, I'm
writing this page, looking back in retrospect, and wondering how my
ninth TSP went by so fast and how I'm going to pass the next eleven
months until the next one. I suppose that the best
answer to that question is to get busy processing images.
Texas Star
Party 2009 Images
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M20
"The Trifid" Emission Nebula in Sagittarius. 3x10 min.
L, 3x5 min. R, 3x6 min. G, 3x7 min. B integrations. Taken with a
SBIG ST-8E, C-11 and G-11 in the morning hours of April 24, 2009.
(Click
on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)
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Arp
244 “The Antennae” (or “Ringtail”)
Peculiar Galaxies in Corvus. 7x10 min. L, 6 6x5 min. R, 6x6 min.
G, 6x7 min B integrations. Taken with a SBIG ST-8E, C-11 and G-11
on April 21 and 22, 2009.
(Click
on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)
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All
astronomical images were acquired with an SBIG ST-8E camera with
AO-7, SBIG CFW-10 with Astrodon LRGBHa filters (for tricolor images),
Celestron
C-11 Schmidt-Cassegrain optical system, and Losmandy Gemini G-11 GEM.
Images processed with MaxIm DL™ v. 4.
Some
images of the beautiful Davis Mountains region of West Texas taken
with my cell phone cam on the road to TSP.
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Southbound on Texas St. Rte.
17 nearing the Texas Mountain Trail
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Into the Davis Mountains
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Yes, it's that clear
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Kids, don't try this at night
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Craig Colbert aka Shady Tree
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Keith Venables and Marvin
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My TSP Observatory
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I
and my rig
(Photo ©
2009 and used courtesy
of the folks at Celestron-see this and other TSP photos at their
blog
site)
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More
to come as I find time to write and process!
Clear (and Dark)
Skies!
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