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Ursa Major Ursa Major over the Observatory "Doghouse". Photo by Charlie Johnson, October, 2003. Click for a larger version	Sunspots Two Jupiter Sized sunspots during the Solar Storms of October 2003, photo by Paul Below. Click for a larger version
Solar Maximum, 2000 The largest sun spot of the 2000 Solar Maximum. It appears that the peak of solar activity occured in late 2000. Image taken at Battle Point Park during one of our regular Saturday Observatory Tours. Click for a larger version	2000 Sunspot Group Enlargement of the 2000 group Click for a larger version
Dumbbell Nebula Photo taken through BPAA's ST-8 camera, through Dave Warman's C8 SCT, on July 10, 1999 during a Battle Point Park star party. Image is 90 second exposure of M27, the Dumbbell Nebula. M27 is about 1000 lightyears from us, and is about 2 lightyears in diameter. M57 is probably a couple of thousand light years away and perhaps one lightyear in diameter. Both are called "planetary nebulaes" even though they have nothing to do with planets. The nebulaes are clouds of cold gas, mostly hydrogen and helium which is expanding away from a small hot central star. Click for a larger version	Jupiter's Moons and its Bands This is a 0.3 secs initial image. Processing yielded either Jupiter's Moons or its bands, but not both. David generated two images, one with moons and one with bands, then transposed the banded Jupiter over to the mooned image to make this composite. Click for a larger version
Star Trails Star Trails in the northern sky over the observatory. Cassieopea is at upper left - by Jared Barnhill . Click for a larger version	Jupiter Here is a single 0.3 secs exposure of Jupiter. Click for a larger version
Jupiter This image of Jupiter is 0.2 secs (R), 0.32 (G), and 0.36 (B) single filtered exposures combined into a single color image. Click for a larger version	Leonid Meteor Shower, 2001 Leonid Meteor Shower, 2001! We experienced a peak rate of about one meteor per 5 seconds. The following image was taken by Terry Hubbert from Hurricane Ridge in Olympic National Park. A Leonid meteor passes through Orion's shoulders. Click for a larger version
Wild Duck Open Cluster Wild Duck Open Cluster (M11) Photo taken by Dave Warman at Table Mountain Star Party July 2002 with a ST-8 camera and a Celestron GP-C8, with an f6.3 reducer/flattener. Click for a larger version	M13 M13 taken during the 2000 Table Mountain Star Party, by Ray and Jared Barnhill. Click for a larger version
M3 A 30 second exposure of the globular cluster M3. Click for a larger version	Whirlpool Galaxy Whirlpool Galaxy (M51) Photo taken by Dave Warman at Table Mountain Star Party July 2002 with a ST-8 camera and a Celestron GP-C8, with an f6.3 reducer/flattener. Click for a larger version
M57 Photo taken through BPAA's ST-8 camera, through Dave Warman's C8 SCT, on July 10, 1999 during a Battle Point Park star party. Image on right is a 60 second exposure of M57, the Ring Nebula. Click for a larger version	First Images with BPAA's 27.5 inch reflector - #1 Here are the very first photos ever taken with BPAA's 27.5 inch reflector! These were taken with a film camera through a 2x barlow which means the effective focal length was over 6800 mm, and were done partly as a test and partly for fun and partly to demonstrate that we can really see something through the scope! Click on the images for a full size image and annotation about the craters in the pictures. Click for a larger version
First Images with BPAA's 27.5 inch reflector - #2 Click for a larger version	First Quarter Moon One of the first two photos taken through the Club's SBIG ST8 camera in April, 1999. These were taken by Dave Warman, using his C8 telescope. The first two are the first quarter moon. Click for a larger version
First Quarter Moon One of the first two photos taken through the Club's SBIG ST8 camera in April, 1999. These were taken by Dave Warman, using his C8 telescope. The first two are the first quarter moon. Click for a larger version	Partial Solar Eclipse Partial Solar Eclipse, June 10 2002! This is a scan of a picture the Bremerton Sun reporter took through Dave Warman's GP-C8 using his little point&shoot digital camera hand-held to the eyepiece. Click for a larger version
Saturn Saturn with a 1.0 secs(R), 1.6 (G), and 1.8 (B) composite of simgle monochromatic exposures into a color image. Very small, hence rather pixelated. Longer focal length or eyepiece projection would help here. No Cassini division visible, but there is some surface detail. Click for a larger version	Winter Solstice, 1999 - #1 These 3 images were taken at noon on winter solstice, December 21, 1999. The sun shone, through the solstice port in the observatory and onto the white board in the meeting room. These images show the progression of the event. Click for a larger version
Winter Solstice, 1999 - #2 Click for a larger version	Winter Solstice, 1999 - #3 Click for a larger version
Solar maximum Very active groups were observed in the late summer of 1998 as we started toward the solar maximum. When viewing the full image, note that sunspots viewed toward the limb of the sun reveal a variation in altitude that is not visible when the spot is centrally located on the sun's disk (from the vantage point of earth). Click for a larger version	Largest Sunspot, 2001 The largest sunspot of 2001. At its largest, this group was visible naked eye (through filter) and was the largest in 12 years. Image taken from Winslow Click for a larger version
$Sun Captured Directly from the Video Feed - <font size="-1">This image is not so amazing for what it looks like, but rather for how it was captured. In an impromptu July 10, 1999 pre-star party activity, Dave and Jeanne Blain set up their 80mm short tube refractor on a video tripod, and attached Paul Below's sun filter to view sunspots. Dave Warman hooked up his BoardCCD camera (a 1/4", medium resolution, low light level video camera) and ran the live output to a TV monitor for everyone to view. The image was captured directly from the video feed. There are numerous faint black sun spots visible in both the northern and southern solar hemisphers, as we approach the solar 11 year maximum.</font>$ Sun Captured Directly from the Video Feed This image is not so amazing for what it looks like, but rather for how it was captured. In an impromptu July 10, 1999 pre-star party activity, Dave and Jeanne Blain set up their 80mm short tube refractor on a video tripod, and attached Paul Below's sun filter to view sunspots. Dave Warman hooked up his BoardCCD camera (a 1/4", medium resolution, low light level video camera) and ran the live output to a TV monitor for everyone to view. The image was captured directly from the video feed. There are numerous faint black sun spots visible in both the northern and southern solar hemisphers, as we approach the solar 11 year maximum. Click for a larger version	Swan Nebula Swan Nebula (M17 aka Omega Nebula) taken by Dave Warman at 2003 Table Mountain Star Party. Click for a larger version