Astrophotography by Calvin Klatt
Equipment Notes:
Images captured up to mid December 2019 are taken using a Celestron CG5 German Equatorial Mount, purchased in 2012. Images captured after that used the Sky-Watcher EQ6R-Pro German Equatorial Mount.
Camera for deep sky images prior to August 2020 are with the ZWO ASI294MC Pro. Images after this date are a mix of ASI294MC Pro and the ZWO ASI-6200MC Pro cameras.
The earliest images shown were acquired in June/July 2019 with the 8" SCT telescope. First light with the Celestron RASA-8 was in mid-August 2019. First light with the (used) 11" SCT was on August 29, 2019. First light with the (used) 14" SCT was in May 2020.
Images observed at the Lac Teeples deep sky observatory in Quebec unless otherwise noted.
“The great spirals, with their enormous radial velocities and insensible proper motions, apparently lie outside our [Solar] system.”
Edwin Hubble, 1917.