HAS Site, September 2007
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Dueling TOA 130's...  Mine and Ken Miller's, HAS, 9/15/2007 at the annual picnic.

Be sure to scroll all the way down and see the lightning pictures.

M-27 The Dumbbell Nebula Picture	Helix Nebula
M16 Eagle Nebula (6.4 hours total exposure now, this is the pillars of creation area)	Prickly Green Spider (Lynx Spider?)
Mayfly	See Lightning pictures from Friday night, 9/14/2007, below...
Light Trails, 9/15/2007 at HAS	Southern Milky Way, 9/15/2007 at HAS

All astronomy images:  Canon EOS 20Da (unmodified), Takahashi TOA 130 (a 5" APO refractor) with the TAK flattener, guided with  SBIG STV, Astro-Physics AP 900GTO mount.    My current image processing workflow is here.  Daylight, star trail, lightning, and bug images Nikon D200, Nikon 18-200 VR lens (trails & clouds),  Nikon 105mm macro lens for bugs.

Above/Left: Lightning off to the southeast as the "cold" front pushed through on Friday, 9/14/2007.  There were some spectacular flashes.  I wish I would have paid attention to them sooner but I was focused on getting ready for imaging.  See below for a wider view with a bit of lightning.

Lightning and star trails

The lightning off the the southeast didn't cause much of an issue with my astrophotography, and things quieted down a couple hours after dark on Friday night.