This is a page to share the most recent images I have captured and uploaded to the Internet.

The last night of the ECSP in Coinjock NC the spring of 2010 I decided to go ahead and try to image SOMETHING, after not really intending to because of the volatile nature of the weather.  So I decided on an easy cluster, M13.  I soon found out what I had left home in Chesapeake, all of my focusing masks.  So I had to rely on plain old Chuck's eye's for focus - not a good thing.  I spent four hours trying to get the stars to look round.  So when I finally achieved a marginally acceptably poor focus, I shot a dozen or so images at various exposures and and ASA levels.  I brought them home and stacked them into this mess.  Not as good as I had hoped for, but hey it's here!

Ok, who doesn't like the Ring Nebula M57? This is a combination of about four shots with each having  a different exposure length and different ASA value.  Again taken at the ECSP in Coinjock NC, the skies were a bit rough due to the impending storm and it was "just one of those nights" Murphy was with me all night long screwing with my focus. 
Hey Georgie I can see the central star!  Hubble it's not...

The image taken on the left was acquired in early 2004 of forgotten exposure length and number of stacked images. The right hand image was taken 01/02/09 around 4:00 AM and is a stack of 120 exposures of .0643 seconds in duration.  Both images were taken using the same equipment at the same focal length using a Meade LX-200GPS 10" telescope and a Meade LPI camera.

Of particular interest is the amount of difference in tilt between the two images observed in nearly five years.

Moon, Venus, Jupiter conjunction 12/01/2008 7:23 PM, Canon 40D, 1.1s @ 200ASA, 50mm @ f5.6.  No filters, single image processed in ACDSee Pro.

Moon 7:38 PM 10/14/08, Canon 40D, 1/320s @ 100ASA, no filters, single image processed in ACDSee Pro.