Images from
Patrick
Wiggins
Page 1 of 4 (page
2) (page
3)
(page
4)
(click on images for enlarged
view)
12 AUG 2000
Auroral Display as seen
from Stansbury Park, Utah
Images taken
between 1030 and 1040 UT.
001
002
003
004
Minor planet
2000 YA during its fly
by of Earth at 735,000 km (only
twice the Earth-Moon distance) early on 22 December 2000 UT. All
3 are 30 second exposures with an ST-237 shot through a C-14 operating
at f/4.1. Field is 8.4' x 11.2'. Exposure start times are
listed
below each image. Images were taken in Stansbury Park,
Utah.
SLAS member Bruce Grim helped with the imaging. View the images
in
rapid succession and watch 2000 YA literally streak across the field.
005
03:33:00 UT
006
03:33:59 UT
007
03:34:55 UT
Spiral Galaxy
NGC 2683 and an
anonymous companion spiral.
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager operating at -25 C. 26
February 2001.
008
2 minute
exposure
009
4 minute
exposure
010
6 minute
exposure
Spiral
Galaxies NGC 3389 & NGC
3384.
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager operating at -25 C. 02
March 2001.
011
4 minute
exposure
012
M-13
Celestron 14
@ f/7, SBIG ST-6B imager, 1 minute exposure. 27 April
2000.
013
M-51
Celestron 14
@ f/7, SBIG ST-6B imager, 5 minute exposure. 27 April
2000.
014
M-61
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 3 minute exposure. 15
April 2001.
015
M-63
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 7.5', 6.0' & 4.5'
exposures co-added. 27 April 2001.
016
NGC 4328 (l)
& M-100 (r)
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 7.5', 2.5' & 1.0'
exposures co-added. 11 May 2001.
017
Supernova
2001bg in NGC 2608. The supernova, discovered 3
days before this image was made, is the bright star to the immediate
lower
left of the galaxy. At the time the image was taken it was about
14th magnitude.
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager operating at -6 C, 4 2.5'
exposures co-added. 11 May 2001.
018
M-106
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 4 2.4' exposures co-added.
12 May 2001.
019
M-109
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 4 2.4' exposures co-added.
12 May 2001.
20-36:
24 May 2001 test firing
of a full size space shuttle
solid rocket booster at the Thiokol test site near Corine, Utah
020
Media gather
to watch the firing
021
Patrick
Wiggins jokingly prepares for the expected ear-splitting
roar. Turned out to not be that noisy but the shock wave was
intense.
The solid rocket booster (SRB) is the thin white "line" on the mountain
in the distance.
022
T-Minus 5
minutes and counting...
023
T+2 seconds
(0:02)
024
T+0:10
025
Patrick
enjoying the experience (and relieved it was not that loud)
026
Hansen
Planetarium's Tori Spratling gives the experience a "thumbs
up" at T+0:39
27
Patrick
wondering if the shutter has snapped (at T+0:56)
028
T+1:30
029
T+1:41
030
T+1:47
031
Burnout at
about T+2:02
032
T+2:18
033
T+2:46
034
Grass fires
at T+3:11 (well within the fire breaks but a fire truck
responds just in case)
035
Full scale
mockup of an SRB section at the Thiokol Rocket Park
036
Full size
mockup of an entire SRB at the Thiokol Rocket Park (note
folks beneath SRB for scale)
037
M-29
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 1' exposure. 22 June
2001.
038
M-56
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 1' exposure. 22 June
2001.
039
NGC-6992
Celestron 14
@ f/4.1, SBIG ST-237 imager, 4' exposure. 22
June 2001.
040-045:
10 SEP 2001
occultation of Saturn. Celestron
14 @f/11. These images and the video clip were taken from a VHS
video
(processed by Joe Stohl at Hansen Planetarium)
040
041
042
043
044
045
3 meg
Quicktime video
(no longer available)
046
Bubble
Nebula, NGC-7635
Celestron 14
@ f/3.6, SBIG ST-237 imager, 10 90" exposures
stacked. 22 September 2001.
047
Little
Dumbell Nebula, NGC-650
Celestron 14
@ f/3.6, SBIG ST-237 imager, 10 90" exposures
stacked. 22 September 2001.
048
Comet
Ikeya-Zhang near the Andromeda Galaxy (M-31) 8 degrees above
the horizon
Celestron 14
cm f/1.65 Schmidt camera, 3' exposure on decades old
Tri-X film. 05 APR 2002, 03:30 (UT)
049
Spiral
galaxies M-66 and M-65
Celestron 5 @
f/6.3, SBIG ST-6 imager, 15" exposure. 29 APR 2002
(UT)
