Photo Gallery

Neptune and Moon Triton taken with live stacking on August 16, 2020
Pete Ferdig

PANSTARRS C/2017 T2 taken January 24, 2020
Can you find the comet?
Craig Stocks

Orion in a single frame from the star party at Toquerville Park Friday January 24, 2020.
SkyWatcher 8" f/3.9 Quattro Newtonian on a Celestron A-VX mount
Sony a7R2 camera, ISO 2000 for 30 seconds.
Processed in Lightroom and Photoshop.
Craig Stocks

Here is a picture that I took at the water tank in Warner Valley, Monday January 13, 2020.
Meade LX200 8" with 6.3 focal reducer and Svbony CLS filter
DSLR, One 2 minute exposure.
Ken Simons

Presenting 2nd Horkeimer Telescope to Washington Library System
October 8, 2019

Members presenting to Pineview Stake Scouts
Kolob Reservoir Campground
June 27, 2019

Total Lunar Eclipse Crew on the Hogback in Toquerville, UT
photos by Ken Simon
January 20, 2019

Library Telescope Training with NPS Rangers
New Harmony, Utah
November 16, 2018

Tom Olson Presents Horkeimer Orion Starblast 4 to Director of Washington County Library System
September 11, 2018

Tom Olson and Dave VanFleet at Maxwell Park, Hildale, UT.
Brave Youth Camp Star Party
September 7, 2018
Weekend of the Southwest Astronomy Festival

Mike Phillips at Unity Park, Ivins, UT
Star Party
Part of the Southwest Astronomy Festival
September 22, 2017

Tom Olson at Children's Museum, St. George, UT
Solar Viewing Party
September 23, 2017
Part of the Southwest Astronomy Festival

Star Party at Unity Park in Ivins, UT
September 22, 2017
Part of the Southwest Astronomy Festival

Star Party at Unity Park in Ivins, UT
Part of the Southwest Astronomy festival
September 22, 2017
14 Telescopes set up with over 250 people in attendance

Asteroid Florence, 9/2/2017. Near Earth asteroid passed about 4 million miles away.
It is about 2.7 miles in diameter. Has two moons of its own.
Exposure was 5 minutes. Used a cooled CCD camera. Focal length 1900 mm.
By Manning Butterworth

This was the last eclipse in the tetrad of four total Lunar eclipses that began in April of 2014. The Moon at that time was in a moderately rich star field and you can see several background stars. At about the 9:30 position is a 9th magnitude (faint) star just about to be occulted by the Moon. At about the 3 o'clock-position is a brighter (7th magnitude) star. The red color is caused by the Earth's atmosphere. Called a blood moon.
By Manning Butterworth

Solar telescope viewing at town square
St. George, UT. June 26th
Photo by Eric Olmstead

Grafton Ghost Town, UT January 2015
Canon 60Da 30 second exposure, 14mm lens
3200 ISO
By Mark Shelton

Moon and Saturn 6:32 am, Januay 16th 2015
300 mm lens, F/5.6, ISO 2500
by Manning Butterworth

Comet Lovejoy passed by globular cluster M79 12:39 am, December 29. 2014
Single 60 sec. exposure, ISO 2500, unguided.
by Manning Butterworth

Comet, C/2014 E2 (Jacques)
DSLR attached to LX200. 60 seconds at ISO 3200.
by Manning Butterworth

Conjunction (August 31, 2014) of the waxing Moon, Mars, and Saturn.
DSLR and 300 mm lens at ISO 3200 mounted on a tripod and not tracking.
by Manning Butterworth