Telescope Images from the Heritage High Telescope

*Heritage High School Science - Mr. Kay

Telescope Images from the Heritage High Telescope

The Astronomy Class meets in local community park settings where students are provided an opportunity to observe not only the constellations, but to see available planets, stars, and deep space objects with the school's 10 inch Meade Schmidt Newtonian reflector telescope. Now we are also taking images through our telescope using our Meade CCD digital camera. Each outing provides new opportunities to try to photograph something new as we learn to use the equipment. The students are enjoying the process.

The three pictures below left were taken during our most recent telescope viewing night 10/3/07 at Southbridge Park in Littleton, CO.

M13 Globular Cluster in Hercules (NGC 6205)

25,100 ly away, 145 ly across, magnitude 5.8, 100,000 stars

Andromeda Galaxy M31 (NGC 224) spiral galaxy in the Andromeda constellation magnitude 3.4 , 2.38 million light years away, 200-300 billion stars.

The Dumbell Nebula M27 1st planetary nebula discovered lies 1.25 kly away, magnitude 7.4, est star explosion 4000 to 5000 years ago, gas expanding 6.8 arc seconds per 100 years, 6 arc minutes across and halo 15 arc minutes across.

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M31 Andromeda Galaxy photo was taken 11.04.07 It was a composite photo-made of 50 stacked 15 second images with the HHS 10 inch Meade LDX55 and Meade CCD

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M33 Pinwheel Galaxy in Triangulum photo taken 11.04.07 with the HHS 10 inch Meade Schmidt-Newtonian with a composite of 50 images of 15 second exposures.