Links to other great Astrophotography and CCD imaging pages
Ulrich Beinert A very nice web page with piggyback and prime focus Color astrophotos taken with a Meade 90mm ETX. There are also some nice articles on astronomy and astrophotography. Check out the ongoing solar analemma photography project!
John Boudreau Some really fine Color deep sky and planetary astrophotography done with a Meade 12" f/10 SCT and a Televue 85 Refractor. I like the planetary nebula images!
Ray Cash Beautiful Color film and CCD images with an Astro Physics Traveler Refractor and a Celestron C-8 (Fastar). Ray also has some very nice Visual Observing and Amateur Telescope Making pages as well.
Chris Cook An excellent gallery of Color and B&W Astrophotos. Chris uses a Celestron 8 and a Tele Vue 102mm Refractor for his photography.
James Foster Many interesting "off the beaten path" deep sky objects are captured in Color. Check out the ongoing article featuring his new 13" custom Cassegrain which is now up and running!
Robert Gendler Some of the finest color CCD images on the planet! Rob uses a 12" f/9 Ritchey Chretien Cassegrain and a Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor to capture high resolution images with SBIG and Finger Lakes Instruments CCD cameras. Some interesting articles on image processing are featured on his site as well.
Martin Germano Since the mid 1970's Marty has been doing B&W astrophotography. His page features many different types of deep sky objects taken with his 14" f/5 and 8" f/5 Newtonians using hypered Tech Pan film.
George Greaney Some of the finest Color film images on the net ! George uses an AP 6" f/7 EDF refractor, a Celestron 14 SCT and an OGS 14.5 " Ritchey-Chretien reflector mounted on a Byers heavy duty German Equatorial.
Piermario Gualdoni Many beautiful photographs of Nebulae, Open clusters and Galaxies are captured with a Takahashi FS 102 Refractor.
Steven Juchnowski Very nice color CCD images taken with a Celestron 11 and SBIG ST-8E camera. Steven lives in Australia and he features many interesting southern hemisphere deep sky objects on his webpage.
Jerry Lodriguss An excellent gallery of Color deep sky photography with many articles about Astrophotography and Digital processing techniques. Jerry uses an AP Starfire 130mm f/8 Refractor for many of his images.
Dale Mais A fine site devoted to CCD Spectroscopy and imaging with a Celestron 14.
Marco Lorenzi Marco uses a Vixen R200SS (8" f/4) Newtonian to capture many of his fine Color images.
Steve Mandel A gallery of fine Color and CCD images (some from the southern hemisphere) taken with various instruments such as a C-14, Celestron 8" Schmidt camera and AP 5"&6" Refractors.
John McCubbin A nice CCD/Astrophotography page with B&W and Color images taken with various instuments from an observatory in Kentucky. John is also working on a series of articles related to CCD imaging and Astrophotography.
Bobby Middleton Many excellent Color images of deep sky objects and planets taken with custom made 12.5" and 8" Newtonians and a Takahashi Epsilon 130 astrograph.
John Mirtle John's page features excellent Color and B&W (Tech-Pan) photography of the deep sky using 8" and 13" Newtonian telescopes. He also uses an 8" f/1.5 Celestron Schmidt camera for some very nice wide field astrophotography
Michael Richmann A fine page with many beautiful Color deep sky images. Mike uses a Meade 8" LX200 SCT for his deep sky work. He has recently acquired a new custom 12.5" Ritchey-Chretein Cassegrain made by Brad Ehrhorn (RCOS) which will be used for CCD imaging of deep sky objects.
Michael Stecker, M.D. A web page with some excellent Color and B&W images taken with various instruments. There are also many interesting articles related to his travels to different parts of the world.
Sternenphoto A team of three German astrophotographers: Stefan Binnewies, Federico Juan Fisch and Jens Moser doing some excellent Color and B&W Film work with a variety of telescopes ranging from a 10" f/6 Newtonian to a Celestron 14. (The page is in German, but the fine astrophotos speak for themselves!)
Scott Tucker "Dark Sky Images" An excellent page dedicated to film astrophotography with many beautiful color images taken with an AP 155 EDF refractor and a C-11 There are also articles for the beginning astrophotographer to help one get started in this wonderful hobby.
Chuck Vaughn Exquisite Tri-color and B&W astrophotography with hypered Tech Pan film. Chuck has quite a number of very useful articles related to astrophotography on his page. He uses a 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain, an AP 130mm f/8 Refractor and an Olympus 350mm f/2.8 telephoto lens for his deep sky work.
Brad Wallis and Robert Provin They wrote the book on film astrophotography: "A Manual of Advanced Celestial Photography". What more can I say! Check out their website with many excellent Color and B+W deep sky Film and CCD images take with AP Refractors and a 12.5" f/9 Ritchey-Chretien Cassegrain. A section of hints for film astrophotography and CCD imaging is also featured.
Ron Wodaski Ron's page is dedicated to CCD imaging. There are many fine images taken with various telescopes such as the Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor. He also features articles on image processing and telescope reviews. If you're interested in obtaining your own CCD images, there is a link to an online subscription of his new book "The New Astronomy" which will guide you through the various steps of obtaining and processing CCD images.