Welcome to my Astonomy website, i was always fascinated by this hobby but never developed a real interest until i got my 1st 'real' telescope around 2000, with the new computer age i found a couple astronomy forums, and got encouraged to try astrophotography- little did i realize the learning is never ending with a difficult level thats astronomical.-- did you ever try focusing a camera on something you cant see? working the camera in pitch dark?- and then 'track' a pin point light source with the shutter open so theres no movement?- you get the idea!- these are some of my amatuer attempts, for those who dont know-- DSO means deep space objects in the link section,- for an added touch- i also included a short video of my other hobby, which is model railroads, enjoy-- john

CURRENT ASTRO GEAR:

Scopes- Celestron 9.25 SCT- Celestron C6 SCT-- William optics 66mm ED-- orion 80mm f/5-- meade 90mm f/11

Mountings-- Celestron ASGT-- Skywatcher motorized EQ5-- EQ3--- portable alt/az

Cameras-- Canon 350XT DSLR-- Canon 10d ir/uv modded--- neximage webcam--- canon optura miniDV

  LINKS:

  ODS -- Astronomy forum for equipment and imaging   http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/index.php?http://forum.ourdarkskies.com/                                                                                                     

Astro Trivia Game -- http://my.funtrivia.com/private/main.cfm?tid=59481