Photo Gallery

What Could You See?

In this album we explore the realm of realistic astrophotography with the goal of portraying what you could be able to see through our telescope given the right conditions.

A zoomed in crescent moon with large craters along the line separating the light and dark parts of the moon.

Moon

The sun with fiery outbursts in the shape of a ring during an annular eclipse.

Annular Eclipse

A crescent shaped Venus.

Venus

Jupiter captured in a manner that portrays what is visually possible to see through our telescope.

Jupiter Visual

A large spiral galaxy with a small galaxy nearby with spiral arms from the larger galaxy stretching out toward the smaller galaxy.

Whirlpool Galaxy

A zoomed in view of a galaxy with faint arms spiraling towards the bright core.

Bodes Galaxy

Mars with darker plains and one of the polar ice caps.

Mars

A dense cluster of stars, with less densely packed stars surrounding.

Hercules Globular Star Cluster

A spherical dusty nebula set with a background full of stars.

Dumbbell Nebula

A crescent sun with fiery outbursts eclipsed by a dark moon.

Crescent Eclipse

The sun with fiery outbursts along the edge, and filament-like flames on the surface.

Sun Atmosphere

Saturn surrounded by its large bright rings.

Saturn

Craters on the moon along the edge of the line of dark and light sides.

Zoomed in Moon

Animation of our Moon rising over a mountain.

Moonrise

The Sun zoomed in with large clumps of sunspots. The Sun's grainy surface is also visible.

Sun Surface Zoomed

Jupiter and it's red spot with a moon's shadow on the clouds and another moon to the right of the planet.

Jupiter

The sun with a small portion missing during an eclipse, with small, dark sunspots visible.

Sun Surface Eclipse

Astrophotography

In this album we explore the realm of realistic astrophotography with the goal of portraying what you could be able to see through our telescope given the right conditions.

Two brighter, gassy nebulas set inside of the star-filled and dusty milky way.

Lagoon Nebula Wide

The sun with fiery outbursts from the edge and flame like strands on the surface.

Sun Atmosphere

A large spiral galaxy with more distant, dim galaxies in the background surrounded by stars.

Deer Lick Group

The Milky Way over dark silhouetted trees.

Milky Way

A gassy nebula surrounded by stars with a foreground dark tree and streaks from a plane's lights in the sky.

Orion Behind Trees

A galaxy with dusty lanes and foreground stars in front.

Andromeda Galaxy Core

A dark, dusty, edge-on galaxy with foreground stars surrounding it.

Hamburger Galaxy

A colorful cloudy nebula on the left with two more on the right. On the right one nebula resembles the shape of a flame, with the other nebula on the right having a dark nebula resembling the shape of a horse's head.

Orion Horsehead & Flame Nebulas

A cloudy region in space with darker pillars of gas and dust in the center, surrounded by stars.

Eagle Nebula

A short animation of a comet moving through the sky with clouds moving in front of it.

Comet Animation

Two wispy, curved nebulas set in a field of stars.

Veil Nebula

Northern lights and stars shining over a silhouetted background.

Northern Lights

a circular gassy cloud, surrounded by gassy remnants with stars around.

Cat’s Eye Nebula

Northern lights and stars shining over a dark foreground.

Northern Lights

A bubble shaped gas cloud with a dense star cluster on the other side of the image.

IC1295 NGC6712

Milky Way galaxy over the silhouetted hoodoo formations of Badlands National Park.

Badlands Milky way

A gassy, colorful nebula set in a view with many stars.

Orion Nebula

Stargazing tour with telescopes occurring underneath the Milky Way.

Bryce Milky Way Telescopes