Astrophotography

This gallery contains my limited attempts at astrophotography. Other than a 4-inch refractor telescope on a German mount with a tracking drive, I do not have any specialized astrophotography equipment. Don't expect anything that looks like it was taken by the Hubble Telescope.

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The Big Dipper oriented vertically with trees in the foreground. (The red spot to the right is due to light reflections within the camera lens.)

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$The constellation Orion. Photograph was taken using a 60mm lens with the camera mounted "piggyback" on a refractor telescope using the mounts tracking motor.$
$The Orion Nebula taken with a 1000mm 4-inch refractor telescope.$

Wellford Tiller Photography

Astrophotography