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Bob Moody Astrophotos
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Here are images taken by Bob Moody over a number of years in a wide number of locations and of a wide variety of subjects and/or photo or imaging techniques. Nearly all individual images are described whenever possible. I hope you enjoy my astrophotographs and astronomical images.
 
 My best astrophoto to date! I'm VERY proud of this image. I can zoom it up to 250% and the stars retain their focus almost perfectly....WOW! This is still near the center of our own Milky Way, and numerous other deep sky objects appear such as the tight little cluster of stars near the Trifid which is I believe M28, and opposite these two nebulae are a couple other star clusters showing up in very yellowish color indicating older stars.
 
M8 and M20, The Lagoon and Trifid Nebulae
Monday, June 01 2009 @ 05:03 am EDT
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Keywords M8, M20 
 
 Nearly all of Scorpius is seen here, along with M6, M7, M8, M20, M22, the dark Pipe Bowl and Pipe Stem nebulae, and two airplanes headed towards each other from opposite sides of the picture near bottom. Too much trees but otherwise not too bad.
 
Scorpius and Milky Way
Thursday, May 21 2009 @ 05:47 am EDT
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Keywords Scorpius, Sagittarius, Milky Way center 
 
 M6 (the smaller one) and M7 are quite well seen in roughly the center of our Milky Way as seen from Earth. Near M6 is a small meteor I didn't see until the image was processed...neat! This image is also less-than-perfect in focus and in composure, and I believe it was taken with my 70-210 lens at 210mm, but I list it as a 70mm shot. Just a little too tight to be a 70mm, I'm certain. Anyway, another one that gives me more desire to try harder.
 
Center of the Milky Way; M6, M7
Saturday, May 30 2009 @ 03:33 am EDT
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Keywords M6, M7, Milky Way center 
 
 While the focus is FAR from perfect on this image, it served to give me more desire to do better and to do more imaging more often. The outline of the North American nebula (NGC7000), a dim and imperfect Pelican nebula below that, and the arching loop of Cygnus (NGC6992-95) in the top-right are all visible.
 
NA Nebula, Deneb, Cygnus Loop
Saturday, May 30 2009 @ 03:20 am EDT
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Keywords NA nebula, Cygnus, Deneb 
 
 Moon, Venus and Jupiter in conjunction in the SW sky at sunset on Dec 1st
 
Grand Conjunction December 1, 2008
Monday, December 01 2008 @ 07:12 pm EST
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Keywords conjunction; Venus and Jupiter and moon 
 
 Celestron CG6R 6
 
Sunset
Wednesday, November 19 2008 @ 06:46 pm EST
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Keywords 6" f/8 refractor; CG6R 
 
 Orion with a Canon 20D using a 24mm lens and an exposure of approximately 1 minute. Post Process in Paint Shop Pro X
 
Constellation Orion
Saturday, September 27 2008 @ 05:51 am EDT
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Keywords constellation;   orion 
 
 One of my very first astroimages with my Canon 20D using the 70-210 lens at 70mm. Post processing in Canon EOS and Paint Shop Pro X. Slightly cropped. Faintly seen Barnard's Loop. Very HIGH zoom reveals imperfections, camera shake? guiding correction artifacts? I dunno.....but I'm proud and I'll get it right - someday
 
Orion-Horsehead-Flame Nebulae
Thursday, January 22 2009 @ 03:09 am EST
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Keywords Orion nebula;  Horsehead Nebula;  Flame Nebula 
 
 Watching the www.heavens-above.com website, anyone can sign up and get information and ground track maps for how to see numerous satellite passages any time they might come over. I was looking for the ISS from the SW and had my Canon 20D ready when I saw it this night. I had forgotten to attach my remote shutter release, however, so all I could do was hold my finger down on the shutter button while enough photons built up to catch this image. I was afraid the thing would be shaky but it turned out okay. This is about a 6 to 8 second image with a Canon 24mm f/2.8 lens.
 
ISS splits Venus and Jupiter
Wednesday, November 19 2008 @ 07:20 pm EST
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Keywords ISS  Venus  Jupiter 
 
 With this one excellent, affordable German Equatorial mount, I can mount any of my smaller telescopes from an AstroTech AT66ED to a 7
 
CELESTRON 6" f/8 refractor on a Celestron Advanced Series CG-5 mount
Monday, November 10 2008 @ 11:29 pm EST
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Keywords Leonid, meteor, fireball, l;u;. 
 
 On June 14, 2004, we located and bought a 12X50-foot long used mobile home for the caretaker's residence. Until this had happened, I had stayed in Joe Roam's 5th-wheel trailer seen at the end of the newly-placed trailer. You can also see that the new small observatory building is pretty much completed, and the second larger observatory building is also well under construction. We were making positive progress, however slowly, but we were getting things done and that was the top priority for us in 2004
 
Six months later!
Sunday, July 20 2008 @ 02:11 am EDT
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 On December 26, 2003, we decided to start some work on the two existing concrete pads at Coleman Observatory. We cleared off the pads and started assembling the wall panels one-at-a-time. It was a couple of weeks later that we started raising the walls and preparing to build the roof and the track system that could allow for the roofs themselves to be rolled back out of the way for viewing or rolled shut to protect whatever we kept stored inside. Finally, Coleman Observatory had begun work on our first of two observatory buildings.
 
Let the Party Begin!
Sunday, July 20 2008 @ 02:11 am EDT
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 Planned for almost 8 months, when the night finally arrived the weather could not have been much better. Nearly 25 people attended including about 16 or 17 girl scouts and the remainder were chaperons. We all had a great time looking at selected objects with CETUS, which I showed off to them as darkness was falling.
 
Night with Mt Magazine area Girl Scouts; Feb 29, 2008
Friday, February 29 2008 @ 08:14 pm EST
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 This shot for scale shows a bit of the area where the pictograph is found on the underside of that overhang. We're always told that the artist
 
Not far up there.
Saturday, October 22 2005 @ 01:11 pm EDT
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Keywords Supernova of 1054; Crab supernova remnant 
 
 Here is an image I took of a smoke trail, known as a
 
Lingering Smoke
Saturday, July 12 2008 @ 04:40 am EDT
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Friday, July 11 2008 @ 04:05 am EDT
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