IC 1396 Elephant Trunk Nebula

Last month, I was able to image this from the Eldorado Star Party in south Texas. The combination of emission and dark nebulae make for a dramatic structure. This is a popular object to image. Hope I did it justice.

Incredible image of Jupiter

Geez...does this guy have his C14 in orbit? This image is incredible. See the detail on Io? Celestron should be running ads with this guy's images.

Andy's vid

Andy committed the act of copycat and chose to go with Viddler.com as well. He used a fisheye lens for his captures. This one is my fav:

So much for YouTube...

I found my uploads to YouTube became corrupt and the resolution was quite horrid. Both Veoh.com and Viddler.com seem to do much better on resolution. I uploaded the same .wmv video to both sites. Let me know which one you like best:


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ESP 2008 video

** video removed due to YouTube compression mechanism totally ruining the video **


Eldorado Star Party at night. I shot this with a Canon EOS and remote timer.