Mike Cook's Astrophotography

Battered Moon Battered Moon: Image created on August 31, 2010 with an 8
Battered Moon
Tycho Crater Tycho Crater: Image created on November 24, 2010 with an 8
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
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
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
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