Astrophotography Students in Action

Fall '07 class, on the hill waiting for dark and a chance to spot Comet Holmes

Karl instructs on the criteria for a good negative to bring into the printing room

Cony gets wet in the dark room. Printing is fun!

Allen and Jay diagnose a balky camera

A tired crew's all-nighter for Leonids '02 in Bonny Doon

Bob, Shahram, and Chris at Leonids '02 in Bonny Doon

Aura doing her guided time exposure project on the Losmandy GM8 mount

Duncan admires Jonathan's new astrophoto setup on its inaugural night

Yep. JC's pretty happy now that's he got a quality Losmandy GM8 rig. No more struggling with lame-o mounts and scopes.

The Fall '08 class cozy's up inside the Observatory warm room after fog rolls in.

Carolyn and Ann Photoshop their galaxy pictures

Brent and Mitchal watch as their first 5-min shot of Comet SWAN downloads off the ST2000XCM camera

And many more photos can be found on these adventures with Astro 9 alumni....