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Glenn R. Cameron's Photo Gallery

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Long-time ACA member,
Glenn Cameron, has served the Club in many capacities.
  Asteroid Toutatis.  Animation captured with an 8" Meade LX90, f/3.3 focal reducer/corrector, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Captured from my backyard in Canton, Ohio. Lat: 40.8°  N, Lon: 81.4° W, on 9/7/2004, from approximately 0400 to 0500 UTC.  Click the image to view the animation.
M5 - a globular cluster in Serpens. Image is a single raw frame of video taken with a StellaCam 3 w/0.5x reducer on an Astro-Tech AT111 mounted on a Meade LXD75.  Image captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6°W on 5/2/2013 M13 - Great Globular Cluster in Hercules. Image is a single raw frame of video taken with a StellaCam 3 w/0.5x reducer on an Astro-Tech AT111 mounted on a Meade LXD75.  Image captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6°W on 5/2/2013
M4 - a globular cluster in Scorpius. Taken with a Meade 8" LX90, using an f/3.3 focal reducer, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder.  Captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6°W Venus transit in progress, 6/8/2004.  Equipment used: Meade LX90, 8" SCT, homemade Baader solar filter cell with offset 2.5" aperture giving about f/31 on the scope, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6° W
Venus transit at Contact Three showing teardrop effect.  6/8/2004.  Meade LX90, 8" SCT, homemade Baader solar filter cell w/ offset 2.5" aperture giving about f/31 on the scope, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41° N, Lon: 81.6° W Venus Transit of 6/8/2004 shown midway between Contact Three and Four.  Equipment used: Meade LX90, 8" SCT, homemade Baader solar filter cell w/ offset 2.5" aperture giving about f/31 on the scope, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6° W
M42
Messier 42, the Orion Nebula
Taken at approximately 0145 UT on 4/3/2012. Location, Jackson Township, Ohio, USA. Lat: 40.8 Lon: 81.5 W.  Taken with a StellaCam 3 through a Stellarvue SV80EDW
Pluto - Taken on 7/20/2003 at about 0200 UTC. I finally learned a bit about astrometry and photometry and have identified Pluto in this image. Taken with a Meade 8" LX90, using an f/3.3 focal reducer, StellaCam EX, Samsung MiniDV camcorder. Captured at Portage Lakes State Park south of Akron, Ohio. Lat: 41°N, Lon: 81.6°W
M3
Messier 3, open cluster in Canes Venatici.  Image captured on 3/19/2014 with an
Astro-Tech AT111 refractor & an Orion Starshoot G3 Color CCD camera.  5 images with darks stacked and processed with Nebulosity
Partial Eclipse of the Sun
Taken on 2014-10-23 at the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation at Gordon Park.
Image courtesy of Raja P Kumar
Partial Eclipse of the Sun
Taken on 2014-10-23 at the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation at Gordon Park.
Image courtesy of Raja P Kumar
Partial Eclipse of the Sun
Taken on 2014-10-23 at the Cleveland Metroparks Lakefront Reservation at Gordon Park.
Image courtesy of Raja P Kumar
 

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