Star photos & interesting nightscapes from CCAS members
and friends of Astronomy on Cape Cod


Click each photo to enlarge.


Unfiltered Andromeda Galaxy M31 with M32 (above left)
on a humid night. Orange tinge from sodium light pollution - Tom Leach 11/28/11


Flame Nebula and Horsehead in Orion - Tom Leach 11/29/11


Moon over Provincetown by Paul Cezanne 04/09/09.


Stacked image shows 3 glimpses of Asteroid Ceres (1 hour a part) from Truro, Mass
Photo credit Paul Cezanne beginning 9PM on 3/25/09.
Paul also provided an animated gif of Ceres showing the same situation.


Orion Nebula caught in Truro, Mass
Photo credit Paul Cezanne


M42 the Orion Nebula from Tom Leach 11/24/11


ISS & Discovery in tow, Barnstable, Mass
Photo credit Steve Heaslip


M37 Open Cluster in Auriga - Tom Leach 112911


Worm Moon, Chatham, Mass
Photo credit Alan Pollock


The conjunction of Moon, Venus, Jupiter in Harwich.
(moons of Jupiter can be seen) Photo credit Chris Cook


Venus meets a lumination 2 Moon at Cape Cod Lighthouse 11/02/08.
Photo credit Paul Cezanne, Truro, Mass


The Milky Way 05/29/08.
Photo credit Chris Cook, Harwich, Mass.


Comet Holmes 11/11/07.
Photo credit Tom Leach, Harwich, Mass.


Pinwheel Galaxy M33 in Triangulum 10/29/08.
Photo credit Chris Cook, Harwich, Mass.


Sinus Tridium 10/09/07.
Photo credit Tom Leach, Harwich, Mass.


Mare Nubium 10/09/07.
Photo credit Tom Leach, Harwich, Mass.


Venus & Mercury 02/03/07.
Long Pond, Harwich, Mass.


Crater Tycho 10/09/07.
Photo credit Tom Leach, Harwich, Mass.


Saturn barlowed up to 300x on Meade 10" using Sony cybershot camera. Photo credit Tom Leach, Harwich.


Tom Leach was able to catch the light from the Earth reflecting back from the darkside of the moon in this shot taken from Harwich with a Schmidt-Newtonian f/4 scope and some fast film.


CCAS member Chris Cook got this amazing 3 1/2 hour time exposure of the eclipse 02/20/08.


Tom Leach created this montage from photos taken of the February 20, 2008 eclipse from his dome in Harwich. It includes a shot of Saturn which was close aboard that evening.


M42 taken with Sony Digital camera and 10" telescope. Tom Leach


M42 taken SBIG ST-8XE CCD camera Schmidt Observatory
Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS, Mass.


Awesome photo of March 3rd, 2007 Eclipse over Highland Light by Chris Cook.
Iota Leonis to the left of Moon in enlargement.
Funny how photo does not match Starry Night program set for the same moment. How come?


One of eight(8) interesting shots of Mar 3rd, 2007 eclipse by CCAS member Peter Kurtz




The moon shines with a reddish tint over Barnstable during March 3rd, 2007 total lunar eclipse. The last total lunar eclipse visible on Cape Cod was in October 2004. Credit Steve Heaslip


CCAS member Mike Petrasko's Star Shed Observatory.


Blue Shift Team, (l to r) CCAS members Gary Derman,
Stephen Shuart, Bill Boyd (holding plaque), and Bob Angelelli
with the plaque Bill framed of Schmidt Observatory artifacts
that Astrononaut Dan Burbank took to the ISS in
September 2007.





Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS



John Dobson of Dobsonian fame
and Astronaut Dan Burbank speaking at
CCAS meeting Aug 2004. Dan most
recently at the ISS from Sept 4-21, 2006.Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


None the less for wear,
CCAS member Dan Burbank
on Shuttle Discovery Sept 21, 2006.
The last time he spoke to us
he talked for more than an hour,
rattling off numbers and figures
left and right. It was probably
the best talk we'd ever had.
He had been at Woods Hole earlier in
the week for a training program, so
NASA keeps them pretty busy.
On his first mission he brought a
CCAS arm patch with him up to the ISS,
and presented it to the group the night
of his talk. It was pretty cool. One of
our members is working on framing it,
so that we can have it hang
in the observatory.

What you can do with extremely lightweight amateur equipment.
Tom Leach took the above composite using
a primitive digital camera and afocal method.
He melded three photos using photoshop.

Waiting for customers, Astronomy Day 2006. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS

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Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


More finishing pictures. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Computer Station in the warm room. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Framing surrounds pier in the turret. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Sheet rock gets taped in the warm room. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


John Lowry Dobson a highly influential amateur astronomer
who is another guest memebr of the Cape Cod
Astronomy Club visiting regualrly from California.
He is most well known in astronomy circles
because his name is attached to the popular Dobsonian
telescope design. He is credited for
inventing the design, which is used by a large
number of amateur astronomers. He is lesser known
for his efforts to promote awareness of astronomy
through sidewalk astronomy. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Field of Dreams. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Dusk at the Werner Schmidt Observatory, Dennis, Mass. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Clouds backdrop the Schmidt in this shot. Will it ever clear? Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Oh Boy! Werner examines our big Schmidt Cassegrain scope on arival. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


New Pier. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Pio Petoski and Bill Boyd approve of Cape Cod's largest public observatory. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Working end of the 16" Meade showing the correcting lense. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


tailend of our Schmidt Cassegrain 16" telescope at the Observatory. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Stairs up to the pier. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


When does the show begin? Betsy and Matt and our 8" portable S-C.Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Bill Boyd and Werner Schmidt clerk of the works during observatory construction. Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS


Photo credit Jim Carlson, CCAS