New Mexico Skies/Sunglow Ranch Astrophotography Trip 2003

The astro-imaging team had a great time at two of our country's finest astronomical getaways-New Mexico Skies and Sunglow Ranch in Arizona.  The results of 6 nights of imaging are below.  Rich Thurmond of Coyote Skies performed all slide processing.   These images are the beginning of a gallery exhibit that should be available shortly for scheduling in galleries.  Keep checking back for more information.  Most of the images below can be presented at 30" by 20" format.

My main processing objective is for large quality prints at a minimum print size of 13" by 16" (13" by 19" in Premium Luster Epson paper.)  The images below are certainly compromised in detail through their limited web size and .jpg compression.  This page has been edited to include only those images that are beautiful prints in the 13" by 16" Gallery prints.  A few image below are still in reprocessing stages.  
 

I hope you enjoy the images!


Rho Ophiuchus region with AP Traveler


M24 and M17 with AP Traveler


M8 and M20 region with AP Traveler


M24 Region with 300mm lens


Pipe dark nebula with AP Traveler
reprocessed January 2004


Pipe Nebula with duotone enhancement


Pipe Nebula with 300mm Pentax 6x7


North America region with AP Traveler

 


Sagittarius Cloud with AP Traveler


Scutum Star cloud with M11 300mm Pentax 6x7

 


The constellation Sagittarius


The contellation Scorpius


New Mexico Skies Star Trails


Sunglow Ranch star trail with Nikon fisheye lens

White Sands with Pentax 6x7 300mm

Sunglow Ranch journal notes


New Mexico Skies journal notes


White Sands with Pentax 6x7 75mm

 

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