Images from EMU Sherzer Observatory

Large photo of Sherzer 10-inch apochromatic refractor telescope
4-inch Alvan Clark along side of the 10-inch apo refractor


Lunar craters Copernicus and Eratosthenes
10-inch apo refractor telescope / ST-8 CCD camera


Views of sunspot regions in Hydrogen alpha light
10-inch apo refractor telescope / Daystar .7 Angstrom H-alpha filter
Tech Pan B&W film
Note pronounced magnetic field lines in the righthand image
(click on right or left image for enlarged views)


 Major sunspot group in H-alpha light, May 6, 1998
 Major filament shown in this H-alpha image from the 10-inch apo


Globular star cluster M-13 in Hercules
10 second exp.  10-inch apo / ST8 CCD


Large sunspot AR 9169, September 2000 by Tom Kasper with the .7A Halpha filter


 
Comet 17P/Holmes taken October 25, 2007, eyepiece projection, 10-inch apo, 30 sec exp, Canon20Da, by N. Vance
Sherzer Observatory
was open Saturday evening May 4th, 2002
for observation of the all the visible planets.
Visitors were witness to some beautiful sights!
Click here to obtain an image of the planets from that night!
(Click here to see a similar image taken the
week of April 21 - note the position change!)

Images by Jason Gibson
at Sherzer Observatory
2007

M27 The Dumbell Nebula, stack of 70 images for a total of 7 hours of data, 4-inch apo guide telescope. Nebula purposely offset to the side of frame- note abundance of background stars in spite of local light pollution.



Images by Pat Mekled
at Sherzer Observatory
1998

Lunar Images

Crater Copernicus


Appenine Mountains


Crater Clavius


Crater Plato near Alpine Valley


Rupes Recta - Straight Wall

Deep Sky

M1, Crab Nebula in Taurus


M42, Great Nebula in Orion

Planets
More to come...

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