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Steve Stefanik

All of the photographs are taken with Canon 35mm equipment which includes F1 (old) camera bodies with mechanical shutters, interchangable focusing screens, prisms, and lenses. Most shots were taken on a fixed tripod or piggybacked atop a Meade LX 200 with PEC (periodic error control) and SBIG ST-4 or ST-7 CCD camera/autoguider.

Films that were used were either Fujicolor HG400 (negative) or Kodak Kodachrome 100 or 200 and Kodak Elite 100, 200, or 400 (positive).

Slides and negatives were scanned using a Minolta QiuckScan 35 Plus.

  Last updated

June 15, 2005

Mars and the center of "the Milky Way" galaxy in Sagittarius

Canon F1 (old), 135mm f/2.8, E200, 20 minutes

	NGC 7000, "The North America Nebula" (200mm f/4.5 lens, piggybacked, 8 minutes)		Comet Hyakutake (200mm f/4.5 lens, piggybacked, 4 minutes)
	Aurora beneath the "Big Dipper" (50mm f/1.4 lens, 5 seconds on a tripod)		Polaris star trails and Perseid meteor (50 mm f/1.4 lens on tripod for 15 minutes)
	M45, "The Pleiades" open star cluster in Taurus (Kodak Elite 400, 400mm f/5, piggybacked, 24 min.)		Venus/Jupiter conjuntion February 23, 1999 (Kodak Elite 400, 200mm f/16, 2 sec., piggybacked)
	A "fisheye" view of Comet Hale-Bopp (Fujicolor HG 400, 15mm, f/2.8, 4 seconds on a tripod)		Milky Way in Cygnus region (50mm f/1.2 lens, piggybacked, 8 minutes)
	M42 & 43 in Orion (Kodak Elite 400, 400mm f/5 piggybacked, 24 minutes, manually guided 10" f/6.3)		NGC 869 & 884 "Perseus double-cluster" (Kodak Elite 400, 400mm f/5, piggybacked, 24 min.)
	Comet Hale-Bopp (ion tail) (Fujicolor HG 400, 200mm f/4.5, 4 min., piggybacked, autoguided LX200 & ST-7)		Hale-Bopp above McAuliffe Planetarium (Kodak Elite 200, 50mm f/1.4 lens, 2 seconds, on tripod)
	Conjunction of Mars & Jupiter above McAuliffe Planetarium (Kodak Elite 200, 200mm f/4.5, tripod)		Jupiter (26mm eyepiece projection, LX200 10")
	Venus and new waxing crescent moon shot on the evening of December 29, 2000 using Elite 200		Venus and four day old waxing crescent moon shot on January 28, 2001 using Elite 200.
	Jupiter and Saturn in Taurus shot in November 2000 on Elite 200 with Canon F1 55mm f/1.2		Comet C2001 A2 LINEAR July 20, 2001 shot on Kodak Elitechrome 200 with 600mm f/5.
	Planetary conjct of Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Mercury & moon shot July 18, 2001 on E200 w/24mm f/3.5.		Conjunction of 5 planets; Jupiter, Saturn, Mars, Venus, and Mercury shot in May 2002
	"The Andromeda Galaxy", M31, w/satellite galaxies M32 & M110. Shot w/400mm f/5. E200, 1 hr.		"The Pinwheel Galaxy", M33, in Triangulum. Shot with 400mm f/5 on E200, exposing for 1 hour.

Aurora Borealis

Y.F.O.S.

September 07, 2002

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taken by Joel Harris using my Canon F1, with 24 & 15 mm lenses, Kodak LE400 film, piggy-backed on top of Larry Lopez's C14

TOTAL SOLAR ECLIPSE

Puerto de Placidio, Mexico

July 11, 1991

(400mm lens, Thousand Oaks Type II solar filter, piggybacked, Kodachrome 64, f/11, 1/250 sec.)

Christmas 2000 Partial Solar Eclipse

(the last solar eclipse of the Mellennium)

in

H-Alpha light

11:15 a.m. - 2:25 p.m. EST

using a Day-Star solar H-Alpha filter coupled to an 800mm (reduced to 400mm) B&L Maksutov cassegrain captured on tape with a Panasonic WV-3260 CCD VHS composite video camera mounted "piggyback" on top of an LX200

mid-eclipse

12:30 p.m. EST

December 25, 2000

 TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSE

New Amsterdam, New York

August 16, 1989

  (400mm lens, piggybacked, Kodachrome 64, f/9, 1/60 sec)

Venus Solar Transit

June 8, 2004

5:07 - 7:25 a.m. EDT

Lake Massabesic, Manchester, NH

Video frame capture of 3rd contact using Panasonic WV-3260 digital video camera attached to 800mm f/10 B&L catadioptic lens at prime focus with DayStar HAlpha filter "piggy-backed" atop Meade LX-6

Taken with Meade LX-6 10" f/6.3 SCT & Thousand Oaks type 2 daylight solar filter and Canon F1 at prime focus using 35mm Kodak Gold ISO 200 @ 1/60s

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