Most of the photos on this site were taken in light polluted Hamden Connecticut by an amateur whose first and largest telescope is a Meade 2080 LX-3 SCT purchased in Summer 1997. I hope to provide an example of what can be done by a novice under adverse conditions. All film photos were taken with a Pentax K1000. In Fall 2000 I built a small back-yard roll-off-roof observatory and bought an SBIG ST-7E. Most photos since 2000 are taken with the SBIG except for some Solar System objects taken with Phillips ToUcam. In November 2006 I bought a Pentax K100D DSLR for color shots of objects the SBIG has trouble with.
SBIG: Oct NGC-7762, Mar NGC-2685, Mar Satellites, Jun NGC-5395, Aug Pluto
Pentax DSLR: Jan M-37 M-42 M-47 M-48 M-81/82 NGC-1977, Feb NGC-2024 NGC-2246 Lunar Eclipse,
Jul Moon, Aug Cygnus, Sept Mercury Iridium, Oct Startrail Milky Way
ToUcam: Jun Jupiter, Jul ISS, Aug ISS Jupiter, Sep Jupiter moon shadows ISS
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