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All images were taken by me through various telescopes and
camera lenses using photographic film. The negatives were digitized and
processed in a computer using Adobe Photoshop software.
All the images below were published in magazines
and/or books except those labeled np.
This Photographic Gallery of Astronomical Objects is divided into seven
sections (Solar System, Star Fields, Bright Nebulae, Dark Nebulae, Star
Clusters, Supernova Remnants and Galaxies). Please click on any of the
non-gray underlined sections below to see thumbnail images of all the
objects (linked to enlargements) in a section or click on the individual
underlined objects below to see an enlarged image:
SOLAR SYSTEM
Comet Hyakutake
(March,1996) Comet Hyakutake
(April,1996)
Comet Hyakutake (solarized)
Comet Tabur
Comet Hale-Bopp on 4-4-1997
Comet Hale-Bopp over Hollywood
Asteroid Vesta and Helix Nebula
Minuteman II rocket
vapor trail
STAR FIELDS
Cygnus-Cepheus border
IC 4628,
NGC 6231 and Zeta Scorpii
M11 star field
Antares-Ophiuchus Milky Way
Liller 1, Sh2-13, RCW132 and M6
Scutum Star Cloud
BRIGHT NEBULAE
IC 1396
Cave Nebula
NGC 6820
IC 405 and IC 410
IC 2948/44
DWB-111(np)
IC 410
Eta Carina Nebula Sh2-101 & Cygnus X-1
Orion's M42 & NGC 1977
DARK NEBULAE
Snake (B72)
B86 Fish
On The Platter (B144) B142 and B143
B168 & Cocoon Nebula
Barnard 110, 113 and 104
Horsehead
STAR CLUSTERS
M35 M22(np)
Berkeley-17
NGC 6791
SUPER NOVA REMNANT
S-147
GALAXIES
M82 M51 & SN1994i
Markarian's Chain
music:
Alpha by Vangelis
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