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STARGAZER
Your astrophotography

Jeff Johnson
Las Cruces, New Mexico
Telescope: Takahashi TOA-130F
"This is galaxy NGC 3184, and
my first visit to this object. This
deep-sky target is not very often
imaged, so I pointed the larger
scope with its aperture of five
inches at it and shot it with my portable setup,
which includes filters and a QSI 540wsg camera.
The very bright orange star to the right is HP50389,
which is about 1,050 light years away from Earth.”

NGC 3184

The Milky Way
and fiery aurora

Ian Griffin
Las Cruces,
New Mexico
Telescope:
Takahashi
FS-60C
“I have a
long love of
astronomy, and have observed
the night sky for many
years with binoculars and a
telescope. I did my first ‘real’
astrophotography in 1996,
when I used a 35mm SLR
(film) camera to take photos
of Comet Hyakutake. I took
a tripod out into the desert
here in Las Cruces and just
experimented with exposures.
Later, I bought a ten-inch
Dobsonian for viewing, and
within a week was taking
pictures through the eyepiece.
Within a few more weeks, I
knew I wanted to get serious
with astroimaging.”
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