Remembering Montgomery County SMF/BSLBT

My article on Joseph Whitcher in the New England Historical and Genealogical Register

Download the Autostar 4 update zip file

Pictures Taken With My Meade SN 10-inch from Shady Side, MD

These pictures are with the Meade Lunar and Planetary Imager

New good pictures are placed in a folder as I take them. They are all shown here.

M42 01/18/2006 Orion Nebula at prime focus
Saturn 01/18/2006 .088 sec 14 frames 3X barlow lens
Mars 11/18/2005 showing Sinus Meridianus - 5X barlow lens
Mars 10/31/2005 showing Sinus Meridianus - 5X barlow lens
Mars 10/30/2005 showing Syrtis Major - 5X barlow lens
Venus 10/30/2005 - 3X barlow lens
Uranus 10/30/2005 - 3X barlow lens
Albireo 10/30/2005 blue and orange double star - 3X barlow lens
Albireo 5/27/2005 blue and orange double star - 2X barlow lens
Jupiter with moons 5/27/2005 prime focus
Jupiter with red spot 5/27/2005 2X barlow lens
 
Moon picture 12/17/2004 prime focus
Moon picture 3/21/2005 eyepiece projection single frame
Moon picture 3/21/2005 eyepiece projection single frame
The Orion Nebula 2/5/2005 prime focusnote 1
Saturn 2/5/2005 eyepiece projection note 2
Saturn 3/21/2005 eyepiece projection 36 frames
Saturn's Moons 2/5/2005 prime focus
Albireo 11/2003 prime focus
Jupiter 3/5/2005 eyepiece projection note 3
Jupiter showing Great Red Spot 3/21/2005 eyepiece projection

Note 1
100 frames at 8 seconds each processed with Registax 2
Note 2
32 frames out of 132 at 0.354 seconds processed with Registax 2
Note 3
0.177 second exposure for 50 frames, combined using the LPI processing

The telescope, laptop setup
The eyepiece projection mount on the telescope: using 15mm eyepiece producing f/14
The eyepiece projection adapter

Ted Rafferty USNO retirement pictures