The Globular Cluster M53. Maryse Meijer made this nice tri-color image in Spring '03 by combining separate exposures in red, green and blue filters in MaxIm DL at the 12" scope.

Leonid Meteor Storm 20001. Jay Friedland made this beautiful composite image from the outback of Australia.

Leonid Meteor Storm '02. Our crew converged on a small meadow just off Empire Grade at Gray Whale Ranch. Shahram captured this fireball on film and scanned it to produce this .jpg. Nice!

Leonid Meteor Storm '02 I made this image of the same Leonid fireball using our SBIG ST7XE CCD camera mated to a 24mm f/2 Nikon lens, exposing for ~10 seconds.

The Dumbell Nebula. I took this shot on Sept 15, 2004. 5 minutes in the clear filter, with some post-processing in Photoshop.

NGC 891 in Andromeda. I got this shot of one of my favorite galaxies with the 12" LX200 and ST7XE combination, on a moonlit night. The moon and usual light pollution at Cabrillo kept the exposure short - 5 minutes, making for a grainy, low signal/noise image, alas.

Supernova 2004dw Sept 15, '04, a type II supernova in the distant, dust-obscured edge-on spiral galaxy UGC 11394 in Lyra. The supernova is ~17.1 magnitude, shown left of the tick. Stars as faint as 19th magnitude are captured on this photo.

Uranus Jay Friedland took this picture of the planet Uranus on 9/15/04. This is a quick grab; only 4 seconds long. Still, it shows the moons Titania and Oberon flanking the planet, and likely another moon above these. The moons this night lined up along a steep diagonal.

The Moon. Nov 17, 2004 we had stable but foggy weather. Michael took this picture of the southern highlands of the moon using our ST-7 CCD camera on the 12". A 0.4 second exposure in the clear filter. The picture was post-processed in Photoshop; levels / brightness / contrast / and sharpened with the unsharp mask tool.

The Crab Nebula. Dec 1, 2004 Nancee and I took an LRGB sequence, stacked it in MaxIm D/L and did initial color balancing there, then imported to Photoshop 7 for some more adjusting of the levels, sharpness, color balance, and image size/resolution. And just for fun, here's another version - run through Photoshop's watercolor filter and re-touching the hue/saturation.