Image Gallery

Waxing Crescent and Venus

This shot of the crescent moon and Venus was taken using my Fuji Finepix 7000 on the evening of 3/5/09.

Telescope: N/A | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Mar 12, 2009

M82

This image of M82 was taken using a Meade DSI on a beautifully clear night!

Telescope: Celestar 8" | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Jan 20, 2009

Great Orion Nebula

This image was taken by an 8th grade student, Jordan Moore, using the Meade DSI and Envisage software. It is the result of stacking 25 two second images. Look carefully to see the nebulocity.

Telescope: SkyView Pro 127mm | Camera: N/A
Taken by Jordan Moore on Jan 20, 2009

Venus, Jupiter, and crescent Moo

This image of Venus, Jupiter, and the waxing crescent moon was taken around 5:20 pm on November 30th with a Fuji FinePix S7000 camera with a 1/10th of a second exposure.

Telescope: N/A | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Dec 01, 2008

M27 - The Dumbell Nebula

This image of M2 7was taken using the Meade DSI on Sept. 29, 2008 and is the result of around 33 stacked images. No image processing was done (though some is needed!).

Telescope: Celestron NexStar 114 | Camera: N/A
Taken by Pete Idema on Oct 01, 2008

M31- The Andromeda Galaxy

This image of M31 was taken using the Meade DSI on Sept. 29, 2008 and is the result of around 15 stacked images. No image processing was done (though some is needed!).