In the fall of 2004, I took an astrophotography course at Cabrillo College. Here are a few of the pictures I took during the course:

It was a slightly cloudy night in Santa Cruz for a lunar eclipse, but we set up anyway. As the sun set and the moon rose, I got this shot across the bay:

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Then I started taking panoramas of the whole area, since closeup shots of the moon weren't that interesting with the clouds:

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With a tripod at home I was able to get these shots:

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At the Cabrillo observatory, we had access to tracking mounts, so longer exposures could be taken without star trailing. During one 30 second exposure of the Milky Way through Cygnus, I caught this meteor:

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On a field trip to near Mercy Hot Springs, we had darker skys, and I captured this stacked image of M42 in Orion:

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Also on the same field trip, M31 in Andromeda:

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And M45, the Pleiades, as well:

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