Nothing strikes me with the same wonder and awe as the beauty and vastness of our universe viewed through a telescope. I have attempted to capture on film and with a CCD many of the objects that can be seen with an amateur size telescope. This web site contains a complete list of my images. The most recent images are separately listed.
The images on this site include photos of the aurora borealis taken in Alaska, photos of a total eclipse of the Sun taken in Curacao, images of the June 8, 2004 transit of Venus taken on Mauritius Island, a transit of Mercury on November 8, 2006, a grazing transit of Mercury on November 15, 1999, Comet Hale-Bopp, Comet C/2001 Q4 (NEAT), Comet C/2006 A1 (Pojmanski), Comet 73P/Schwassmann-Wachmann 3, a rare triple shadow transit on Jupiter on March 28, 2004, a total eclipse of the Moon, as well as many other images. I am working on acquiring an image of every object in the Messier Catalog. I hope that you will enjoy the images, and perhaps feel some of the same excitement and joy that I have experienced gazing up at the heavens under jet black skies filled with twinkling stars.
I have also included a description of the telescopes I used to take these images.
Click on the thumbnail images below to view images that are grouped according to the type of object.
When I was young, I always dreamed of finding someone with whom I could share my life in this beautiful universe. This web site is dedicated to my best friend, and my wife, Gloria. When I think of her, I look up at the sky sprinkled with silver stars, and blow a kiss to them for making her come true. She always wondered what I was doing outside in the dark...and now she knows.
Comet C2001 Q4 NEAT -- May 22, 2004
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A complete list of Sid's astronomical images.
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2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008 by Sid
Leach
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