Dick Locke's Astrophotography Gateway Page
Copyright © 1998-2013, Dick Locke.  All Rights Reserved.  Contact and Image Use Information

Welcome to my Astrophotography web page.   This is my astronomy photo index page to help locate pictures of interest.  People often want to know about the  astronomy equipment used in these pictures.  Most images use my Takahashi TOA 130 Telescope (a 5" APO refractor).  In late 2005 I began shooting with a Canon EOS 20Da DSLR camera.  In 2007 I switched from my Losmandy G11 to an AP 900GTO mount.   In 2008 I began using a QHY8 CCD Camera.  See Basic Astrophotography for information about how this is done.  I'm starting to use an SBIG ST-8300 CCD camera and a Takahashi FSQ-85 "Baby Q" telescope in early 2011.   More info about Processing Astrophotos is here. Chanel is using some of my astronomy images.

November 2012 Davis Mountains Astronomy Picture Page

Moon Pictures	Planet Pictures and Planet Alignment Pictures	Galaxy Pictures
Comet Pictures	Messier Object Catalog Astrophotography Page	Nebula Page
Time-Lapse Videos	Dark Nebula Pictures	Fixed Tripod and Star Trails
Wide Angle Astrophotos	Meteor Pictures (Shooting Stars)	Star Clusters: Open & Globular
2012 Venus Transit	Thin Crescent Moon Pictures
Most of my recent images were acquired in dark skies of West Texas	New: Embrace the Trails: Satellite Trail Pictures, Include Iridium Flares	Astronomy Equipment
Narrowband Imaging and my ST-8300m Narrowband Page	Main West Texas Astronomy Pictures	Magazine cover moons: Eclipses
Sundog & Sun Halos	Solar Eclipse Pictures	Click on Sun to see solar pictures
Most older shots are Canon EOS D20 DSLR Images	Starry Nights Image	HAS Site pix indexed here
Big Moon + Labeled Images!	My Current Astronomy Image Processing Workflow	Basic Astrophotography
Dick's (older) Astrophotography Page	Articles: Basic Image Processing in Photoshop Why Film Astrophotography? Canon D20a and Nikon D100 noise comparison	Astronomy Features: Some of my best stuff rom a few years ago
	Here's my personal astronomy reference page	Lightning Pictures

 Opus tackles one of the great questions in astronomy: What's the center of it all?

Still More Astronomy Pictures:

Airplane Pictures	Lots of good stuff here from my Starry Nights trip in 2/2007	Milky Way Image Gallery
Mars 2003	New Galaxy Photos
NHAC - moon and mercury pictures	Planet Pictures	Nikon D100 Astronomy Images
Moon Halo	New (6/03) Moon Pix Page	Mars Hoax of 2005.
Davis Mountain Astronomy Pictures	In Memory of Larry Freshnock	Nova Sco 2007.

 

Paul Downing's Home Page	North Houston Astronomy Club
Jerry Lodriguss's Home Page	Houston Astronomical Society
Randy Brewer's Home Page	Don Taylor's Home Page
Dave Clark's Latest	Matt Ben-Daniel's Home Page

Clear Sky Clock for a little ways west of where I live...
 National Weather Service link for The Woodlands


Monitor Adjustment: you should be able to see 17 different shades in above.  If you do not see differences at both ends of the wedge, for best results adjust your monitor and/or room lighting until you do.  The images on this website are best viewed at 1024x768 or higher resolutions, with 32 bit color.

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Copyright © by Dick Locke.  All Rights Reserved.
Contact and Image Use Information

after June 2009 cleanup
Heavens Above for Houston

Drift Method of Polar Alignment
Using the STV to Obtain Accurate Polar Alignment

Becky's 2012 Astronomy Bucket List is here

I would rather be in Fort Davis:  The weather there is here!