By Rex A Parker PhD... with a nod to sci-fi author Vernor Vinge, here is my gallery of deep sky astrophotography. All originals from my home observatory in central New Jersey near the Delaware River (40 deg N lat), or from Chile at Observatorio El Sauce in the Atacama high desert (-30 deg S lat, 1530m elev). The NJ telescope is an AGO-12.5" iDK; the Chilean scope is a Planewave-24" CDK. See Equipment & Process section for cameras etc. The Chilean remote imaging project is a collaboration with Mark Hanson, Steve Mazlin, Stuart Forman, and Stan Watson.
Galaxies
Millions to billions of stars, most of which...
Nebulae
Colorful mysterious residents of our galaxy...
Star Clusters
Vast "cities" of stars held together by...
Supernova Remnants
Massive layers of stars' mass flung into...
Solar System
Comets, asteroids, planets, Luna
only Chile Astro Images
Images acquired from telescopes at El Sauce...
only New Jersey Astro Images
Astrophotos from my home observatory in the...
NJ Observatory
Roll-off roof structure in the garden
Speed of an Asteroid
Calculated from data acquired at home