StarNevada.info : Astrophotography - Digital

Welcome to the Double Star section!

I am by no means a professional astrophotographer!
Regardless, I've taken some pictures & decided to make a page for them.

The camera used is a Canon Powershot G5 Digital Camera with a 7.2 - 28.8mm lens. All pictures were taken afocal or "through-the-eyepiece" with one of my various 'scopes using an Orion SteadyPix camera mount. As to date, no tracking device or stacking programs were used on any of the pictures.
Why double stars you ask? When I first got into astronomy and heard about double stars, I thought: why would anybody want to look at just a star? Here in Las Vegas, on any given night, there are way more stars on-stage then there are in the night sky.
Shortly, I started running out of deep-sky objects to look at from my backyard. So, I naturally moved on to hunting for doubles. Some of them can be very challenging to find. Some of them are visible naked-eye (not split of course!) even from my light-polluted skies. All of them are visible in a 6 x 30 finderscope and can even split in the finderscope. Actually, the more fun ones are the ones that take medium to high power before they split. I've found great pleasure in double star hunting. As you can see...many of them are different colors. Plus, double stars are still obtainable even when the moon is out! Ok...here they are!
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