That's my Astropage !

Hi, my name is Gerhard. I'm living near to Cologne, Germany (with bad seeing conditions). I own a Celestron C8 Schmidt-Cassegrain. You can see some of my first Astrophotos below.  I made the photos with a Connectix CCD camera and a Minolta SRT101. The Connectix is really a low cost camera, but for beginners it's ok. You can take pictures of the moon and the planets.Thanks to Hanno Mueller for the description how to disassemble a b&w Quickcam. Here are some pictures of my disassembled Quickcam.

Some of my Connectix pictures:

Jupiter, 19th Nov 97

Jupiter, 10th Aug 98  The different angles are due to the fixing of the connectix to my telescope. I should improve it.

Jupiter, 23rd Sept 98  The pictures are getting better!

Jupiter and two of his moons. 10th Aug 98

Saturn, 18th Nov 97  Unsharp Mask

Saturn, 23rd Sept 98

Mars, 31st Aug 2003

Mars, 17th Sept 2003 Very good visible was the polar icecap.

Moon, Montes Alpes and Vallis Alpes, 4th Feb 98

Moon, 17th Sept 2003

Moon, 17th Sept 2003

Some real photos:

My first photo! M13  20th May; Outdorp, Netherland  Eyepiece projection, Off-Axis Guider, 10 min. on Fujichrome Provia 1600 ASA.

My picture of the Orion Nebulae. Seeing was bad.