Dick Locke's Astrophotography Gateway Page
Copyright © 1998-2012, Dick Locke.  All Rights Reserved.  Contact and Image Use Information

 Welcome to my Astrophotography web site.   This is my astronomy photo index page to help locate pictures of interest.  People often want to know about the equipment used.  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.

Latest: Chanel is using some of my astronomy images.

Newish: Narrowband Imaging and my ST-8300m Narrowband Page

Check out the California Nebula Narrowband

Newest: Fall 2011 Davis Mountains Trip

Late Spring 2011 Astronomy Pictures

West Texas Scenic and 2011 Fire Pictures

New Spring 2011 Astronomy Pictures

New Feb 2011:  Horsehead Nebula Portrait	Newest Dec 2010 West Texas Astro Pics	2009 West Texas Astronomy Pictures are at this link
Nebula Page	Messier Object Astrophotography Page	Moon Pictures
Wide Angle Astrophotos	Planet Pictures	Galaxy Index
Comet Pictures	Dark Nebula Pictures	Star Clusters: Open & Globular
HAS Site pix indexed here	Fixed Tripod and Star Trails	Most older shots are Canon EOS D20 Images.
Astronomy Equipment	Click on Sun  to see the sunspot picture.	Magazine cover moons: Eclipses
Planet Alignment Pictures	Meteor Pictures (Shooting Stars)	Thin Crescent Moon Pictures
My Current Astronomy Image Processing Workflow	Basic Astrophotography	Astronomy Features: Some of my best stuff
Images (non-Astro) Home	Main West Texas Astronomy Pictures Page Is Here
NGC 253, 20Da (Sculptor Galaxy) This is a much closer re-shoot.  Winner of Yahoo group digital_astro challenge October 2007.	Lightning Pictures:	Big Moon + Labeled Images!
Dick's (older) Astrophotography Page	Articles: Basic Image Processing in Photoshop Why Film Astrophotography? Canon D20a and Nikon D100 noise comparison	Starry Nights B&B Picture Index Starry Nights trip in 2/2007 Starry Nights May 20th and 21st 2006 Starry Nights October 19th and 20th 2006

 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
In Memory of Larry Freshnock
Mars 2003	New Galaxy Photos	Mars Hoax of 2005.
NHAC - moon and mercury pictures	Planet Pictures	10/03: Starry Nights Astronomy
Nikon D100 Astronomy Images	Nova Sco 2007.
Starry Nights 2002 Astro Pix	Latest, 10/04: Astronomy Pictures from 5/2004 West Texas Trip	Some other astronomy links below. Heavens Above for Houston Drift Method of Polar Alignment Using the STV to Obtain Accurate Polar Alignment
Moon Halo	New (6/03) Moon Pix Page	Nikon D100 Astrophotograhy: M42 & M45 NHAC Pix
Davis Mountain Astronomy Pictures

 

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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after June 2009 cleanup.

Becky's 2012 Astronomy Bucket List is here.

Fort Davis Weather info is here!