Questar Gallery

Astrophotographs by

Robert J. Vanderbei

All Astrophotos taken with, or piggybacked on, a 3.5" Questar.
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Messier Objects--Color

M1 M3 M8 Lagoon Nebula M11 Wild Duck Cluster M13 M15 M16 Eagle Nebula M17 Swan Nebula M20 Trifid Nebula M22 M27 Dumbbell Nebula M31 Andromeda Galaxy M33 Pinwheel Galaxy M42 Great Orion Nebula M44 Beehive Cluster M45 Pleiades M57 Ring Nebula M67

Messier Objects--Monochrome

M1 Crab Nebula M2 M3 M4 M5 M8 Lagoon Nebula M9 M10 M11 Wild Duck Cluster M12 M13 M14 M15 M16 Eagle Nebula M17 Swan Nebula M19 M20 Trifid Nebula M22 M23 M27 Dumbbell Nebula M28 M31 Andromeda Galaxy M33 Pinwheel Galaxy M36 M37 M38 M42 Great Orion Nebula M45 The Pleiades M51 Whirlpool Galaxy M53 M56 M57 Ring Nebula M63 Sunflower Galaxy M64 Blackeye Galaxy M65 Leo Trio M66 Leo Trio M71 M78 M80 M81 M82 M84,M86,M87 Virgo Cluster M92 M97 Owl Nebula M101 Pinwheel Galaxy M104 Sombrero Galaxy M107

NGC & IC Objects

NGC253 NGC869 and NGC884 Double Cluster NGC891 NGC1977 Running Man Nebula NGC2237 Rosette Nebula NGC2264 Cone Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster NGC3628 Leo Trio NGC4565 NGC6888 Crescent Nebula NGC6960 Veil Nebula (west) NGC6992 Veil Nebula (east) NGC7000 North America Nebula (Mexico) NGC7331 Deer Lick and Stephan's Quintet Galaxy Clusters NGC7635 The Bubble Nebula NGC7814 IC434 Horsehead Nebula IC443 Supernova Remnant IC1318 Butterfly Nebula IC1396 IC5070 G1, Mayall-II

Solar System

Sun w/ Questar Off-Axis Solar Filter Sun w/ Coronado H-alpha Sun w/ Coronado H-alpha Sun w/ Coronado H-alpha Sun w/ Baader and Astronomik H-alpha Moon Lunar Eclipse Saturn Saturn/Moon Occultation 2001Dec28 Jupiter Neptune and Triton Pluto Mars Venus Venus Leonid Meteors Comet Ikeya Zhang Comet 2002V1 ISS

Stars

Mobile Observatory

Terrestrial

Cherry Blossom Eyeball One Dollar Bill

Equipment

Mobile Observatory Solar Observing You only need 3.5 inches ad Rothschild Picture mount.jpg