Camp Cheesehead, Carrying Place Township, Maine

These photos were taken during August's ('02) new moon on the evening of August 8th and August 10th.  All photos are on Kodak LE400 and due to a major oops, I have no idea what the exposure times were.  I usually use my cell phone's time display to time my photos but I couldn't get a signal out there, so I was guessing.

The Lagoon nebula with the trifid nebula to the upper right.  Taken with f/7 refractor mounted piggyback, st-4 autoguiding appears to be right on.

Same as the other Lagoon nebula shot, but taken with the f/10 12" SCT.  Not sure what caused the blue streak in this photo, but it seems to be pretty common when using the SCT.

This is a widefield shot of the dumbbell nebula taken with the f/7 refractor.  The guiding on this shot was pretty good if I recall, so I'm not sure what caused the rotation on the outside of the photo.  This as I recall was a one hour exposure and I had a pretty good guidestar.

One hour exposure of the dumbbell nebula, m27.  This was taken through the f/10 SCT, note there appears to be a little bit of trailing/rotation. The garbage on the right is from a badly cut negative.  The ST-4 was using a 10 second exposure with an AA=4, which is probably why I got trailing.

This is a bummer.  NGC7000 (the north american nebula) for about a 1/2 hour exposure.  I settled on a very dim guidestar and lost it for a few exposures and then it found a different star, this is the result. 200mm lens piggybacked.

Southern Milky way.  Taken at about 10:00pm right before it drifted in front of a tree (the spectacular observation sight that Greggy found had but one tree, there it is!).  While I do like this shot, I think this is the last time I'm using the 27mm wide angle lens as the field rotation seems impossible to avoid at the edges of the photo.  Note in this photo you can clearly see the lagoon, swan and eagle nebulas.

Wide field (f/7 560mm refractor) view of the swan nebula.  This was a 45 minute exposure (guessing). I had to cut this exposure short as it was just about to drift behind the LONE TREE at the observing field.

This is my favorite shot of the trip.  A 45 minute (approx) exposure of the Swan Nebula (m17) right before it ducked behind the tree.  I started this exposure about 10:00pm and there were minor gusts of wind, which is why there's an occasional trail behind the stars.  This was taken with the F/10 12" SCT.