Astronomy

Index of photo galleries

Created 2007 January 21.

Hannes Pieterse

Deep sky photographs by Hannes Pieterse.

updated 2007 July 17

Dany Duprez

Deep sky photographs by Dany Duprez.

updated 2007 June 28

Kos Coronaios

Astrophotographs by Kos Coronaios.

updated 2007 June 18

George Liakos

Deep sky photographs by George Liakos.

updated 2007 June 27

Percy Amoils

Deep sky photographs by Percy Amoils.

updated 2007 June 18

Ferdi Prins

Constellation & wide-field photos by Ferdi Prins.

updated 2007 Apr 18

Night sky scenery

The Moon, planets, conjunctions, appulses, occultations... anything picturesque.

updated 2007 June 28

False-colour Moon

Careful processing to bring out subtle colours on the Moon.

added 2007 May 08

Full Moon

Digicam only (no telescopes). Also see the tutorial on digicam photography.

updated 2007 May 02

Atmospheric phenomena

updated 2007 Apr 18

Comet C/2006 P1 McNaught

Photos from southern Africa of the comet, and some pics of the comet-watchers, too.

Total lunar eclipse
2007 March 03/04

Moon phases

Taken with a simple digicam; my attempt at illustrating the changing lunar phases.

Adjusting your monitor

If you can see each step of the greyscale above, your monitor settings are OK. If not, play with the brightness and constrast settings until you do. If all else fails, help is available here and here.

Keywords: Astronomy, astrophotography, digital camera, photo gallery, southern Africa