Steve Tuttle's Astrophotography

I started Astrophotography in college with a home made 8" f/7 Newtonian on a Cave Astrola Mount (modified). As I was in the Physics Department and was teaching Astronomy Labs, I had access to the school's Celestron 5" Schmidt Camera. About 15 years ago, I had saved up for a more portable Meade 8" LX200. I am now semi retired and decided to try my hand at digital astrophotography, starting with a non-modified WebCam for planets. It was so much fun, I have moved up to an Orion Starshoot color camera and a Meade DSI Pro II b/w. I get a lot of help from the Yahoo eGroups dedicated to each of the cameras I own or from the Fort Worth Astronomical Society.
Here are some great links: Stark Labs S/W Group / Narrowband Imaging Group / Meade DSI Group

My current equipment is here.

Here is a WMV-format video of my 2007 efforts - ASTRO REVIEW 2007.
Here is my catalog, hope you enjoy looking.

Solar System

Hale-Bopp 04/1997	Hale-Bopp 04/1997	Jupiter 12/2003	Jupiter 03/2004	Mars 08/2003
Saturn 07/2004	Comet Holmes (17P) 10/2007

Galaxies

M33 12/2005	M51 05/2008	M63 05/2006	Leo Trio 04/2005
Leo Trio 03/2007	M81 01/2005	M81/M82 04/2007	M82 02/2005	Markarian's Chain 04/2007
M101 04/2007	M104 05/2004	NGC891 08/2006

Nebulae

M1 01/2008	M8 06/2006	M16 08/2006	M17 07/2005	M20 09/2007
M27 08/2006	M42 12/2004	M45 10/2006	M57 08/2005	NGC 281 10/2007
NGC1499 11/2006	IC434/B33 02/2007	NGC 2244 01/2007	NGC6543 07/2004	NGC6888 8/2007
NGC7000 11/2005	NGC7293 11/2005	NGC7380 10/2007	IC 405 01/2007	IC 1805 01/2007
IC2177 02/2008

Clusters

M3
05/2004

M5
05/2007

Steve Tuttle's Astrophotography

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