TED'S
ASTROPIX:
TEXAS
STAR PARTY 2009!!!
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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 fom 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.
2009 Texas Star
Party Images
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M20 Emission Nebula "The Trifid" in Sagittarius. 3x10 min. L, 3x5 min. R, 3x6 min. G, 3x7 min. B integrations. Taken with a SBIG ST-8E, C-11 @ f/10 and G-11 in the morning hours of April 24, 2009. (Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)
| Arp 244 Peculiar Galaxies “The Antennae” or “Ringtail” in Corvus. 7x10 min. L, 6 6x5 min. R, 6x6 min. G, 6x7 min B integrations. Taken with a SBIG ST-8E, C-11 @ f/10 and G-11 on April 21 and 22, 2009. (Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)
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March 17, 2011: The reprocessed Trifid.
(Click on the thumbnail to view the full-size original image.)
All
astronomical images were acquired with an SBIG ST-8E camera with
AO-7, SBIG CFW-10 with Custom Scientific 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 taken
with my cellphone on the road to TSP.
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Southbound on Texas St. Rte. 17
nearing the Texas Mountain Trail | Into the Davis Mountains |
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| Yes, it's that clear | Kids, don't try this at night |
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| Craig Colbert aka Shady Tree | Keith Venables and Marvin |
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| My TSP Observatory | I and my rig (Photo © 2009 and used courtesy of the folks at Celestron-see this and other TSP photos at their blog site) |
Clear, Dark and Steady
Skies!
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