Nico's Best Astrophotos of 2001

Thursday, July 14, 2005

November 17 2001

November 17 2001 - Photos of saturn and jupiter with its moons taken with my 10" LX50 and color quickcam VC webcam.

July 6 2001

July 6 2001 - This is one of my only Mercury shots so I thought I would post it up even thought its not atractive at all. Picture taken with 10" LX50 SCT and color quickcam VC webcam.

June 18 2001

June 18 2001 - These pictures were some of my last astrophotos using film. Althought its fun to work with film, i find it can be a little expensive and takes time to develope. This image is of Venus and the moon taken with me Pantex K2 SLR camera.

June 8 2001

June 8 2001 - Pictures of mars with my black and white quickcam and comparison of mars sizes as it aproaches earth.

May 13 2001

May 13 2001 - Images of mars taken with my B&W quickcam and my 10" LX50 SCT. Notice on the top right the size difference of Mars as it aproached closer to earth!

May 3 2001

May 3 2001 - Comparing some of the mars photos that were taken with both my colour and my black and white quickcams. All images taken with my 10" LX 50 SCT

April 14 2001

April 14 2001 - Images of very thin crescent venus and mosaic of the moon taken with both 80mm telescope and 10" LX 50 SCT and quickcam vc color webcam

April 7 2001

April 7 2004 - Very large sunspot group taken with my 80mm telescope and color quickcam VC webcam.

April 4 2001

April 4 2001 - This image is a comparison using two different types of solar filters. On the left is taken with my homemade baader solar filter and the right was taken with my thousand oaks glass solar filter. Both images were taken with 80mm telescope and quickcam VC color webcam and were taken using the same exact settings.

March 23 2001

March 23 2001 - Large sunspot group taken with my 80mm telescope and quickcam VC color webcam.

March 18 2001


March 18 2001 - Lunar mosiac taken with my 10" LX50 SCT and my color quickcam VC webcam.