Robert Reeves' Celestial Photography

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A sampling of 35mm film, digital, 8-inch Schmidt canera, and webcam images taken by Robert Reeves at the Von Braun Photographic Station and other locations

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Table of Contents

  1. High Resolution Black & White Images, Page 1.
  2. High Resolution Black & White Images, Page 2.
  3. Color Schmidt Images, Page 1.
  4. Color Schmidt Images, Page 2.
  5. Wide-Field Piggyback Images.
  6. My images of Comet Hape/Bopp.
  7. A Selection of Meteor Photos.
  8. A Camera Cluster for Meteor Photography.
  9. Ultra Wide-Field images taken at the 2001 Okie-Tex Star Party.
  10. First images with my new 105 mm Nikkor.
  11. November 20, 2003 aurora over south Texas.
  12. GUEST OBSERVER Meet Kent Kirkley.
  13. GUEST OBSERVER The remarkable astrophotography of Kent Kirkley.
  14. About Myself A brief biography.
  1. My Observatory How I built it.
  2. The Schmidt Camera Principles and tips.
  3. The Mount Ancient, but it works!
  4. New Mounts being fabricated.
  5. Chemical and Digital Darkroom Work The finished product.
  6. Testing films for astrophotography
  7. Schmidt Camera Repair, Collimation, and Focusing
  8. Spanish translation of Schmidt repair procedures
  9. My recent visit with astronaut Don Pettit at JSC in Houston
  10. Adventures With High-Resolution Webcam Lunar Mosaics
  11. Lunar Images with Atik IIhs camera, C-8, and 2X Barlow
  12. New images taken with a TeleVue 60is and 300D IR-mod camera.
  13. How to remove the lens from a Philips SPC900NC webcam
  14. Creating long duration urban star trails

A rather liberal licence is granted for personal and non-profit use of the images and text displayed at the Website. This material may be used in items like non-profit astronomy club newsletters as long as it is properly credited, but commercial and for-profit reproduction is forbidden without my express permission.

60is

Digital Astrophotography with the TeleVue 60is

At the 2005 Texas Star Party I saw a prototype of the TeleVue 60is imaging system and fell in love with it. Later that year by a great stroke of fortune I was asked by Astronomy Magazine to do a review of this new imaging telescope. As readers of the September, 2006, issue of ASTRONOMY have seen, I was very impressed with the instrument....so much so that I refused to give it back! I bought it so I could keep it. Now that the review article has been published, I am free to display images that I have taken through the 60is with my Hap Griffin IR mod Canon 300D camera.. I think you will see the 60is is quite a performer!

Images taken at the Eldorado Star Party

Images taken at the Texas Star Party

Images taken at the X-Bar Ranch

Back by Request

A Look the the Philips 900NC Webcam

I removed this web page about the 900NC during a website cleanup in the summer of 2006. I did not know that a British magazine had published a link to this page. I have therefore reinstated the details about the 900NC, particularly how to remove the lens from the camera. Sorry if I inconvenienced anyone by removing this earlier.

Adventures With Urban Long-Duration Star Trails

A look at how you can use a digital camera to make super long-duration star trail images from an urban location that are better than any taken with a film camera at a dark sky location.
Hi-Res Webcam

Adventures With High-Resolution Webcam Lunar Mosaics

How I created high-resolution images of the entire lunar disk by assembling mosaics of detailed, but narrow-field, webcam images.

NEW!

Full lenght lunar terminator mosaics shot at 5000 mm focal length

book cover

Introduction to Webcam Astrophotography

Imaging the Universe with the amazing, affordable webacm

My latest book about webcam astrophotography was published by Willmann-Bell in May, 2006

Click here Willmann-Bell to enter the publisher's web site for detailed table of contens, preview the first chapter online, and ordering information.

Hard back edition
156 illustrations
368 pages
21 tables

Only $34.95

book cover

Introduction to Digital Astrophotography

Imaging the Universe With a Digital Camera

My book about digital astrophotography was published by Willmann-Bell in May, 2005

Click here Willmann-Bell to enter the publisher's web site for detailed table of contents, preview the first chapter online, and ordering information.

Click here to see a high-resolution image of the book cover and backplate.

Hard back edition
270 illustrations
400+ pages
20 tables

Only $34.95

Wide-Field Astrophotography

"Wide-Field Astrophotography" Released by Willmann-Bell

On May 10, 2000, my book "Wide-Field Astrophotography" was released by Willmann-Bell, Inc.

Click here to see the table of contents, download the first chapter in .PDF format, and get ordering information.

Collimation, Focus, Modification, and Use of the Celestron/Epoch Schmidt Camera
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New! Spanish translation of my Schmidt camera guide, courtesy of Fernando Paniaqua
CLICK HERE

¡ NUEVO ! Mi Guia De La Camara Schmidt Traducida Al ESPAÑOL, Cortesia De Fernando Paniagua
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