Image Gallery

January Jupiter

This shot of Jupiter was made during the CMS Astronomy club meeting January 12, 2012. It was rather hazy but some detail still came through. It is a composite of 50 images stacked and processed using RegiStax software.

Telescope: Celestar 8" | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Jan 13, 2012

Total Lunar Eclipse

These eclipse shots were taken from my home on the morning of Dec. 9-10 using a little Meade 4 inch SCT and a Nikon D50 Camera. Unfortunately the focus was lost during the sequence and the moon set just prior to totality! Still it was quite a show.

Telescope: N/A | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Dec 20, 2011

Supernova in M101

This image of M101, the Pinwheel galaxy, shows the recently discovered Type Ia supernova just 10 days after its explosion (as seen from Earth). Click on it to see the whole image. M101 was very near the horizon and there was smoke from wildfires in the air so the seeing wasn't great, but the supernova and a few arms of the spiral galaxy can be seen. The image was a 90 second exposure.

Telescope: Celestron 14" (CG-14) | Camera: SBIG ST-7 CCD
Taken by Pete Idema on Sep 11, 2011

M13 Globular Cluster

This image of M13 in Hercules was taken with the "big" scope and camera. Once again the scope and camera are getting along well with the computer and doing what they were designed to do!

Telescope: Celestron 14" (CG-14) | Camera: SBIG ST-7 CCD
Taken by Pete Idema on Sep 09, 2011

September Gibbous Moon

This image of a portion of the Gibbous Moon taken Sept. 8 during the CMS Astronomy Club meeting.

Telescope: SkyView Pro 127mm | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Sep 09, 2011

Prominence

This August 3, 2011 prominence was taken through a Coronado PST on a very active day on the sun! The camera was an Orion web cam and the best 9 images of a 10 second video were stacked using Registax software.