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    Eclipse & Transits      
          Total Solar Eclipse-July 22nd, 2009  Asian Pacific              
          Excursion          
 
                     
                   
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          Mercury Transit-November 8th, 2006  Portland OR, USA                 
          Imaged when the clouds broke momentarily.  Camera was a Sony "Mavica" hand held to a 14mm Radian eyepieces mounted in a TeleVue 85mm Telescope using a "White Light Filter".  Note the sunspot in the upper right
         
                     
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          Total Solar Eclipse-September 22nd, 2006  Upsallata, Argentina              
Excursion
 
                     
                   
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          Venus Transit-June 8th, 2004  Greece               
          Excursion          
                     
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          Total Solar Eclipse-June 21st, 2001  Africa               
          Excursion          
                     
                     
                   
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          Partial Solar Eclipse-December 25th, 2000  Portland, OR, USA            
          Partial Solar Eclipse, December 25th, 2000.  Clouds parted just long enough to catch  the end of the event using a 70mm Pronto Telescope from Portland, Oregon.           
                     
                     
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          Partial Solar Eclipse-July 21st, 2000   Astoria, OR USA             
          Photographed using a Pentax 6x7 camera & 400mm f/4 Telephoto Lens at 1/1000th of a second.  Sun has slight notch as the Eclipse is nearly over. Foreground-Astoria/Magler Bridge that crosses the Columbia River connecting Oregon to Washington.          
                     
                     
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          Total Solar Eclipse-August 11th, 1999   Turkey            
          Excursion          
                     
                   
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          Total Solar Eclipse-February 28th, 1998  Aruba Caribbean          
          Excursion          
                     
                   
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          Total Solar Eclipse-June 4th, 1993  Portland, OR USA                
          Taken through a 130 mm f/8 Brandon Refractor.          
                     
                     
                     
                     
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          Partial Solar Eclipse-July 22nd, 1990  Pine Mountain, OR USA             
Total Eclipse viewed as a Partial from Pine Mountain.  It's setting over the "South Sister Mountain."  Photographed through a 130mm Brandon f/8 APO Refractor Telescope.
                     
                     
                   
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          Partial Solar Eclipse-October 12th, 1977  Springfield, OR USA                
          Imaged projection produced by 8 inch Star Liner Cassegrain & imaged using a Pentax 200mm f/2.5 Camera Lens.          
                     
                     
                     
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    Solar Images      
          Solar Image-August 6th, 2010  Central Oregon              
          Imaged Using TV 76mm, H-Alpha Solar Filter and IC Camera.  Leo of GAMA assisted.          
         
 
         
                     
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          Solar Image-October 26th, 2006  Central Oregon, USA          
 Imaged Using TV 76mm, H-Alpha Solar Filter and Toucam Camera.
         
 
         
                     
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          Solar Image-August 26th, 2006  Central Oregon, USA            
          Imaged Using TV 76mm, H-Alpha Solar Filter and Toucam Camera.           
         
 
         
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-July 8th, 2005  Central Oregon, USA               
           Imaged Using TV 76mm, H-Alpha Solar Filter with Klee 2.8x Barlow Lens and Toucam Camera, during Mt. Bachelor Star Party          
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-July 25th, 2004   Central Oregon, USA          
           Imaged Using TV 76mm, H-Alpha Solar Filter and Toucam Camera.  Dave Haworth assisted in image enhancing.          
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-May 2nd, 2004  Portland, OR USA          
           Imaged Using TV 76mm and Toucam Camera.  This was a practice run prior to the Venus Transit Excursion          
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-April 29th, 2004  Portland, OR USA          
 Imaged Using TV 76mm and Toucam Camera.
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-July 22nd, 2009  Portland, OR USA              
          Imaged Using TV 76mm and Toucam Camera.            
                     
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image Activity-October 25th, 2003  Portland, OR USA              
           Images taken through a TeleVue 76 with a Coronado H-Alpha Filter, using a Sony Mavica MVC-CD400.  The camera was  hand held over a 32mm Plossl Eyepiece          
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image Activity-October 25th, 2003  Portland, OR USA              
           Images taken through a TeleVue 76 with a using a White Light Filter using a Sony Mavica MVC-CD400.  The camera was  hand held over a 32mm Plossl Eyepiece          
                     
          Dave Haworth-Image of Airplane Passing through Sun Spot 488           
                     
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  Solar Image-July 2002  Portland, OR USA        
          Image with 94mm Brandon at F/32, 6x7 Pentax Camera and White Light Filter.          
                     
                     
                     
                     
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          Solar Image-July 2002  Portland, OR USA              
          Image with 94mm Brandon at F/32, 6x7 Pentax Camera and White Light Filter.          
                     
                     
                     
                     
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    Comets & Meteor Showers      
        Comet Gallery  Web-Page             
          Comet Ikeya-Zhang       Comet Hale-Bopp       Comet Hyakutake      Comet Kohoutek          
                     
                     
                   
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          Leonids Meteor Shower-November 17th, 2001   Mt. St. Helens, WA  USA              
                     
                     
                   
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    Lunar Theme Images      
        Moonrise viewed from-September 1988  Mt. St. Helens, WA USA             
          Moonrise near Mt. St. Helens Washington.  Taken  using a Pentax 6x7 camera with a 45mm f/4 wide angle Lens.          
                     
                   
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        21 Hour old Moon   1988,  Pine Mountain OR USA             
          Taken in 1988 through 94mm f/6.8 Brandon Refractor.   Taken from Pine Mountain Observatory  in Central Oregon.            
                     
                     
                     
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        Venus & the Moon   April 1993,  Eugene, OR USA          
         

Moon and Venus at sunset.  Taken with a 28mm f/2.8 Lens.  Taken in April 1983 from the South Hills of Eugene, Oregon.

         
                     
                     
                     
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    Constellations & Deep Sky Images      
        North Cygnus August 1999  Oregon Star Party            
          Taken at the 1999 Oregon Star Party in Central Oregon by Richard Berry / Greg Babcock using a Pentax 6x7 camera and a 105mm f/2.4 Lens, using Kodak Ektachrome VS100 pushed to 200 ISO          
                     
                     
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        the Big Dipper at sunrise at Table Mountain WA  USA          
          Big Dipper at Sunrise.  Taken at the July 1998 Table Mountain Washington Star Party using a Pentax 6x7 camera with a 45mm f/4 wide angle Lens.          
                     
                     
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        Orion rising over the Oregon Star Party August 1995          
          Orion taken at Sunrise.   Taken August 1995 during the Oregon Star Party using a Pentax ME Super Camera with a 28mm f/2.8 Lens,  Film Kodak 400 ISO,  Exposure of 30 seconds.          
                     
                     
                     
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        the Orion Nebula Spring 1988 Pine Mountain, OR USA          
         

Taken through a 94 mm f/6.8 Brandon Refractor at a 12 minute exposure using Kodak T-Max film.   Taken from Pine Mountain Observatory in Central Oregon.   The Telescope was attached to the Observatory's 24 inch Telescope using Duct Tape with a protective foam rubber liner.  Lynn Carroll (Duct Tape Master) designed the attachment.  The guiding was done using an Illuminated Eyepiece and using the 24's fine motion controls.

         
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    Terrestrial Images      
        Oregon Star Party  September 21st, 1995             
           Early days of Digital imaging.  Richard Berry's and Mel Bartels camp at 1995 Oregon Star Party.  Before there were Laptops & minimalists Dobsonian Telescopes.  Not seen is the generator to power the Telescope.          
                     
                     
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        Rain Funnel  July 1983   Portland, OR USA             
                     
                     
                     
                     
                     
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