Jon Pannier
As a young boy growing up in Chicago I looked forward to the monthly
visits my Dad and I would make to the Adler Planetarium. My parents gave
me a 60-mm refractor and I have been interested in astronomy ever since.
I live in Suisun City which suffers from light pollution like the entire
Bay Area, so I travel to dark sky sites for my photography.
My Telescope: An orange Celestron C-8 that I purchased many years ago
from Owen Durden.
 Milky Way In Sagittarius |
My favorite dark sky location has a good southern horizon. I
used Ekatachrome 400 for this long exposure. |
 Hale Bopp |
This image of Comet Hale Bopp passing through the Milky Way
near the North American Nebula is my favorite. This was a "piggy
back" picture from my C-8 taken on Royal Gold 400. |
 The Great Orion Nebula |
I took this with my C-8 operating at F/6.3 on Fuji 800. Like
all amateur astro photographers I had to try my skill on this
spectacular nebula. |
 M 13: The King of Spring |
I used Fuji 800 for this six minute exposure. This image
does start to bring out the red and blue stars that
characterizes M 13. |
 Solar Eclipse - June 10, 2002 |
This image was taken near mid eclipse. An Orion full
aperture glass solar filter was used on my C-8. I was using Fuji
Superia film for this 1/250 of a second exposure. Note how much
less luminous the limb of the sun is than closer to the center. |