Wehr Astronomical Society, Inc. Image Page

On this page you will find images that our members have taken. Unless otherwise stated, all images are copyrighted by the photographers.

Mars in July, 2003:
Mars taken in the early morning of July 1^st with an SBIG ST-237A CCD camera on a 6" Maksutov-Newtonian telescope. This image is composed of 40 stacked images of 0.05 second exposures taken in a total time span of two minutes. The images were stacked and processed with the program AIP4WIN. Color tinting was added with Corel Photopaint to match what was seen in the eyepiece. This image is copyright Phil Schumacher.

Lunar eclipse of May 15, 2003:
Images are from 1/200th of a second for the full moon image to 3 seconds for the total eclipse image. Taken at our observatory in Froemming Park with a Sony Cybershot DSC-S75 through a Celestron NextStar 5.