Amateur Astrophotography by Don McCrady

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May 30, 2009: I took a trek out to Rattlesnake Lake and brought along my Canon 40D along with a really low-end Orion EQ-1 mount. The mount, wobbly as it was, actually tracked very accurately, and I managed to get my first wide-field image of the Milky Way framed by the Summer Triangle as a result.

Feburary 22, 2009: A new image of M97 and M108 are up in my gallery, the last of the string of 3 clear nights in foggy winter-time Redmond.

February 21, 2009: A new image of NGC 4631 & NGC 4656 (a.k.a. the Whale & Hockey Stick galaxies) are up in my gallery,.

January 20, 2009: Many of you know that the photos on this site are also on my Flickr site. Interestingly, a recent blog post called Found In Space talked about the very cool astrometry.net project, and the article linked to my recent IC443 - The Jellyfish Nebula image. The result: over 6000 hits on the image in a single day!

Recent Images

Summer Triangle		The nothern Milky Way flows through and around the three stars of the Summer Triangle.
M12		M12 is a small globular cluster lying about 23000 light years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
M14		M14 is a small globular cluster lying about 26000 light years away in the constellation of Ophiuchus.
M108 and the Owl Nebula		M97 (the Owl Nebula) shares the camera field of view with far-away galaxy M108.
Whale & Hockey Stick Galaxies		The galaxy pair NGC 4631 (the Whale) and NGC 4656 (the Hockey Stick) lie in the small constellation of Canes Venatici.