Comet Neowise and Venus


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Welcome to taosastronomer.com!

offering local "hands-on" observing
(visual and imaging) sessions and instruction
viewing and imaging from Rabbit Valley Observatory
a dark sky location on the mesa just west of Taos, NM

 

Astro-images of Willis Greiner [copyright Rabbit Valley Observatory/Willis Greiner -- all rights reserved]
below are montages of related [emission nebulae (left) / galaxies (right)] astro-images as previously presented --
please click on the thumbnails below to view a larger version of the digitally combined image groups

 

Heart and Soul Nebulae
Galaxy Group

Heart and Soul Nebulae montage -- 2015

Galaxy Group montage -- 2015


Lunar Eclipse montage

Comet NEOWISE and Venus
Comet NEOWISE detail

Comet NEOWISE with Venus and the Pleiades -- 08/10/2020

Comet NEOWISE close-up -- 08/10/2020

Comet Neowise detail
Comet NEOWISE

Comet NEOWISE detail -- 08/20/2020

 

Please click on text or images to view larger versions / most larger version titles accessed will link externally to interesting additional information on each photographic subject

 

nebulae

click the rollover image above or this text to access astro-imager Willis Greiner's newest galleries of colorful original astrophotographs
-- these most recent astrophotographs taken using RVO's exemplary Explore Scientific 127mm apochromatic refractor

click this text to access Willis Greiner's original gallery #1 of astrophotographs / these images taken through RVO's original photographic instrument, the 80mm William's Optics Megrez achromatic refractor
click this text to access Willis Greiner's gallery #3 of astrophotographs taken through RVO's original 80mm Megrez achromatic refractor
click this text to access Willis Greiner's gallery #4 of astrophotographs taken through RVO's original 80mm Megrez achromatic refractor

 

solar eclipse

2024 TSE composite

click the solar eclipse image to the left or this text to access astro-imager Lawrence Greiner's galleries of the April 8, 2024 total solar eclipse as viewed / photographed from Fredericksburg, TX -- field astrophotographs taken with a Nikon D3500 equipped with a zoom telephoto lens

 

grayscale
 

 

To correctly and accurately view images such as those seen on this website, it is important to adjust your computer or device's monitor to the neutral gray scale above. First of all, every sector seen above should appear to be shades of a neutral gray -- gradually moving from black to white -- further, each segment should be independently visible, not "oozing into" one another. When your device is correctly calibrated (not so difficult) you will be able to view the images as they were created and intended to be seen.  

 


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