Mike Cook's Astrophotography

Battered Moon Battered Moon: Image created on August 31, 2010 with an 8" Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Philips SPC900NC Webcam. Aligned, stacked,...
Battered Moon
Tycho Crater Tycho Crater: Image created on November 24, 2010 with an 8" Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Philips SPC900NC Webcam. Aligned, stacked,...
Tycho Crater
Hydrogen Alpha Sun This image of the Sun was obtained on November 5, 2011. it was acquired with a Coronado SolarMax 60 and Philips SPC900NC webcam. It's a stack of 300 frames...
Hydrogen Alpha Sun
2012 Transit of Venus Transit of Venus: Image created at 7:30 pm EDT on June 5, 2012 at Warren Dunes State Park. North is at the top. Equipment used includes an 8" Star Hoc Reflector...
2012 Transit of Venus
2012 Transit of Venus Transit of Venus: Image created at 6:51 pm EDT on June 5, 2012 at Warren Dunes State Park. Equipment used includes an 8" Star Hoc Reflector on a Celestron CG-5...
2012 Transit of Venus
2012 Transit of Venus Transit of Venus: Image created at 8:11 pm EDT on June 5, 2012 at Warren Dunes State Park. Equipment used includes an 8" Star Hoc Reflector on a Celestron CG-5...
2012 Transit of Venus
Solar Corona Taken with a Canon T5i on August 21, 2017 at 12:59 pm. A 1/90th sec. exposure at ISO200 through an 8-inch Hardin reflector on a Celestron CGEM mount at Stuhr...
Solar Corona
Diamond Ring Effect Taken with a Canon T5i on August 21, 2017 at 12:59 pm. A 1/90th sec. exposure at ISO200 through an 8-inch Hardin reflector on a Celestron CGEM mount at Stuhr...
Diamond Ring Effect
Prominences & Corona #1 Taken with a Canon T5i on August 21, 2017 at 1pm. A 1/750 sec. exposure at ISO 200 through an 8-inch Hardin reflector on a Celestron CGEM mount at Stuhr Museum...
Prominences & Corona #1
Prominences & Corona #2 Taken with a Canon T5i on August 21, 2017 at 1:01pm. A 1/750 sec. exposure at ISO 200 through an 8-inch Hardin reflector on a Celestron CGEM mount at Stuhr...
Prominences & Corona #2
Solar Eclipse Composite Taken with a Canon T5i on August 21, 2017. Each a 1/750 sec. exposure at ISO 200 through an 8-inch Hardin reflector on a Celestron CGEM mount at Stuhr Museum in...
Solar Eclipse Composite
Jupiter with Io's Shadow Taken on November 7, 2012 with a Celestron NexStar 8 GPS, SPC900NC webcam, and a 2x Barlow. Aligned, stacked and processed in Registax 5.
Jupiter with Io's Shadow
Saturn Taken on April 20, 2013 with a Celestron NexStar 8 GPS, SPC900NC webcam, and 2x Barlow. Aligned, stacked and processed with Registax 6.
Saturn
Comet Garradd Comet Garradd (C/2009 P1): Imaged on August 27, 2011 with an 8-inch Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Canon 350D (unmodified). Total...
Comet Garradd
NEOWISE in the Morning Comet NEOWISE as seen from Richland Township Park, near Richland, Michigan, on July 11, 2020 at 4:52 am EDT. This is a 15-second exposure with a Canon T5i...
NEOWISE in the Morning
NEOWISE in the Evening Comet NEOWISE as seen from Paw Paw, Michigan on July 13, 2020 at 11:11 pm EDT. This is a 20-second exposure with a Canon T5i camera (ISO 1600) and 75mm lens...
NEOWISE in the Evening
Andromeda Galaxy Andromeda Galaxy (M31): Image created on August 27, 2011 with an 8-inch Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Canon 350D (unmodified). Total...
Andromeda Galaxy
Orion Nebula Orion Nebula (M42): Image created on October 6, 2011 with an 8-inch Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Canon 350D (unmodified). A stack...
Orion Nebula
Whirlpool Galaxy Whirlpool Galaxy (M51): Taken on March 21, 2012 with an 8-inch f/4 Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, Canon 350D DSLR (unmodified). Total...
Whirlpool Galaxy
Double Cluster Double Cluster (NGC 884 & 869): Image created on August 27, 2011 with an 8-inch Hardin Star Hoc Reflector, Celestron CG-5 GOTO Mount, and Canon 350D...
Double Cluster