I was presented with a chance of a life time to join a great group of guys for two weeks of
astrophotography at New Mexico Skies. NMSkies is located in the Sacramento Mountains of
New Mexico.
I want to thank Kirk Rogers for inviting me along on the trip. Although we had a run of bad weather I still had a blast and found
some great friends. As a group we managed to capture some great images of the southern night skies.
Week one group from left to right.
Back row standing:
Jeff Ball,
George Whitney, Kirk
Rogers, George Walker and Saul.
Front row kneeling:
Ernie
Mastroanni, Joe Schaefer and
Warren Keller
Three guys not shown in our group photo are
Matt BenDaniel,
Dave Shimek and
Rob Burgess.
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Group image courtesy Ernie Mastroanni
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George Whitney and Kirk Rogers were kind enough to loan me their jointly owned AP900 mount for this imaging trip. I want to
thank them both for the loan.
My imaging setup: Takahashi FS-128 w/OM-1 camera. Piggyback Nikon FE with 28mm to 300mm lens. Kirk also loaned me
his Takahashi FS-78 as a guide scope and another Nikon camera giving me three imaging cameras.
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My Imaging setup
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One of our site seeing trips we made was to White Sands National Monument located near Alamogordo New Mexico.
The deeper into the park we drove the whiter the landscape became. I was able to photograph some
of the different vegitation which grows in this harsh invironment and I was graced with the opportunity to photograph a Bleached Earless lizard. He was
nice enough to pose for several photos. I think he wants to be a movie STAR!
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Bleached Earless Lizard
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New Mexico Landscape Photos
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New Mexico Landscape Photos
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We visited two Local Observatories
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Local Observatories Photos
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Collection of images taken at NMSkies
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Photos from NMSkies
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