Every day our eyes catch the light of our memories – time spent with family, the journey to work, a special holiday, a beautiful sunset or a dark starlit night. Each image captured is a picture drawn in light – a photograph: only to be lost in our minds or forever forgotten. Nearly two hundred years ago a small group of amateur scientists achieved what had eluded mankind for centuries – the ability to capture a permanent record of an image seen by their own eyes – a moment in time frozen onto a surface. They had discovered Photography. They were the ‘Catchers of the Light’.

Tuesday, February 10, 2009

M82 ...small

M82

Messier 82 (also known as NGC 3034 or the Cigar Galaxy) is the prototype[3] nearby starburst galaxy about 12 million light-years away in the constellation Ursa Major. The starburst galaxy is five times as bright as the whole Milky Way and one hundred times as bright as our galaxy's center.

This photo is taken under the full moon of Athens!!!

100min total exposure
20x5min lum

8''SCT (LX90 OTA only)
ST10XME
EQ6 Pro

Moon

This is a single 0.5sec exposure with 5nm Ha filter/ST10XME ccd Camera and 8''SCT (LX90 OTA only)
Mount EQ6 Pro

Friday, February 6, 2009

Sunday, February 1, 2009

Mare Humorum

Mare Humorum
17/05/2008

8'' LX90
Imagine Source DBK Color Firewire Planetary camera