These photographs are the beginnings of one of my semester-long projects for my Astronomy 4101 class (a class that focuses on observational astronomy). This semester, I'm going to be using the school's observatory to make, among other things, a catalog of planetary nebulae and globular clusters.
I'm just now learning how to use a CCD camera, so these pictures are pretty crude. Right now they're only in black-and-white--to give them color, I've to take separate photographs in various wavelengths of light, then merge them together (which I've not learned to do yet, but I will soon).
The telescope I used is a 16" Cassegrain reflecting telescope.
Here's what I have so far:
Albireo, a double star:
The Dumbbell Nebula:
M13, a globular cluster located in the constellation Hercules:
Beta Lyrae, another binary star system:
The Ring Nebula. In the center you can see the white dwarf star, surrounded by the halo of gases that were blown off during the supernova:
I'm just now learning how to use a CCD camera, so these pictures are pretty crude. Right now they're only in black-and-white--to give them color, I've to take separate photographs in various wavelengths of light, then merge them together (which I've not learned to do yet, but I will soon).
The telescope I used is a 16" Cassegrain reflecting telescope.
Here's what I have so far:
Albireo, a double star:
The Dumbbell Nebula:
M13, a globular cluster located in the constellation Hercules:
Beta Lyrae, another binary star system:
The Ring Nebula. In the center you can see the white dwarf star, surrounded by the halo of gases that were blown off during the supernova:
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