Ad Astra Observatory

Hi Jimbo,
I liked the dark horse image in particular. Looks good.

Alex

On Aug 7, 2006, at 11:58 AM, Jimbo S. Harris wrote:

> Hi all,

>
> Now that the Ad Astra Observatory at Newark is up and running, I’ve
> been shooting a lot of sky lately. Doing this also reminded me to
> go back and poke through my backlog from last year’s astrophotos
> and see if I’d forgotten to upload anything to the website. I’m

> embarrassed to say that, in fact, I forgot to upload quite a bit of
> stuff from last year’s star parties in Shingletown, CA and
> Clearwater, WA. So I spent a little time over the weekend (the
> moon’s too bright for photography right now) wading through those
> shots and getting my processing workflow going again.

>
> So, there are several new astrophotos on my website http://
> www.jimbo.net/astro. There are “NEW!” icons next to the pages with
> new content, and the same icons appear next to the new images
> themselves, to help you find them. If I had an older image of the
> same object, I’ve put the new stuff to the left and increasingly

> older stuff going to the right, so you can see how the mojo has
> been progressing with practice…
>
> There’s more stuff to come from the backlog (several widefield
> photos at least are still hanging out there), and the backlog has
> started up of stuff shot from the observatory, too (not to mention

> photos *of* the observatory, both during construction and under
> use), so keep your eyes peeled for more shots to come soon. The
> moon’s only getting brighter this week…
>
> Keep looking up,
> Jimbo

> PS: For the ADD folks, the pics of M8, M16, M20, M31, and the Dark
> Horse widefield are all from Shingletown 2005. M27 and M13 are from
> AAON 2006. There’s a new Jupiter animation from a month ago, too,
> but you’ve already seen that one, right?
>
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