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Hubble image of the Eagle Nebula

 
 
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8 MEMBERS' IMAGES

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Astro-photography is not a dark art - it can be relatively easy. Whether images are produced using conventional means or via the latest digital imaging techniques, astro-photography is an absorbing and fun way to expand your interest. Wiltshire Astro Society also accepts, alongside digital images by our members (jpeg format please!) images made by traditional sketching and also scanned film images 

The table below lists members' images captured by a variety of techniques. Click on the thumbnails to view a larger version of the image, with a brief description. Please see the note below regarding correct viewing. Solar images were taken with specialist filters. Looking at the Sun without proper filters is highly dangerous, and can lead to immediate and permanent eye damage. The link to software on the left features some of the software used to take some of the images you will see here. Also note that in our newsletter, members images and observation logs appear each month. See our Ask An Expert section for links to people who can help with questions on all aspects of imaging the heavens

 

 MEMBERS' IMAGES - Click the thumbnails to display a larger image in a new window.

Member

Description

 Nick Howes

Some of Nick's latest images and image processing and astro projects including Deep Sky/Lunar and Solar shots can be found Here

 John Ball

Comet Hale Bopp March 1997. Zenith SLR camera. 200mm lens. F4. 4 min exp. 400 asa Scotch Chrome film pushed to 800asa. Camera mounted piggyback on 10" Newtonian telescope guided by hand control of motor. Image converted to digital image

 John Ball

Comet Hyakutake April 1996. Zenith SLR camera. 200mm lens. F4. 4 min exp. 400 asa Scotch Chrome film pushed to 800asa. Camera mounted piggyback on 10" Newtonian telescope guided by hand control of motor. Image converted to digital image

 John Ball

Occultation of Saturn April 2002. Using Canon A20 powershot digital camera and mounted for afocal imaging through my 10" Newtonian Telescope.

 John Ball

Occultation of Saturn April 2002. Using Canon A20 powershot digital camera and mounted for afocal imaging through my 10" Newtonian Telescope.

Nick Howes & 
 Nick King

Composite animation of the Sun. Nick King on prominences with a Coronado PST, and    Nick H on surface with the Coronado Maxscope 40. 

 Nick Howes

Lunar Craters Petavius & Cleomedes 

 Nick Howes

A Spectral Tour of Orion with element lines - C8 at F10 with LPI and 
VREH type B1-S spectrascope 

 Nick Howes

Star spectra with element lines - C8 at F10 with LPI and VREH   
type B1-S spectrascope 

 Nick Howes

M42 

 Nick Howes

Spectral signatures of Betelguese and Rigel

 Nick Howes

Saturn in 2006

 Nick Howes

Swept-walled Lunar Crater

 Nick Howes

Gassendi using an IR blcking filter

 Nick Howes

Mars using an IR blocking filter

 Nick Howes

Mars at Opposition in 2005, comparison with digital images

 Nick Howes

Mars Opposition 2005 . Celestron C8 at F20

 Nick Howes

Solar Annular Eclipse from Segovia Spain Oct 2005

 Nick Howes

Solar Prominences with a Hydrogen Alpha Telescope

 Nick Howes

Solar Annular eclipse - ground projections. Segovia Spain Oct 2005

 Nick Howes

Solar Annular Eclipse - First contact

 Andy Burns

 Lunar Eclipse - 27th October 2004

 Simon Barnes

Comet Hale Bopp

 David Parnell

Planetary Conjunctions & Aurora

 Brian Scott

 Comet Linear

 Anthony Bawdon

Groups of Sunspots

 

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