Located in Gold Canyon Arizona
My discovery Asteroid 2003 SQ222 (closest near-miss asteroid) At the time of discovery 2003-SQ222 was the closest near-miss asteroid found! |
Official Lowell Observatory press release about 2003 SQ222 Discovery image / Follow-up recovery image As an observer for Minor Planet Research Inc., I have staffed Lowell Observatory's Near Earth Object Search "LONEOS" observatory near Flagstaff, AZ. This is one of the few places where Near Earth Objects (NEOs) are searched for and discovered. Click here for views of the LONEOS telescope and others at the Anderson Mesa site near Flagstaff, Arizona. |
Comet 17/P Holmes
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Planetary photography
Saturn images
April 17th, 2006 image of Saturn March 29th, 2004 image of Saturn. March 27th, 2004 image of Saturn. March 23rd, 2004 image of Saturn. March 8th, 2004 image of Saturn. |
2003 Mars at opposition images!
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Comet Ikeya-Zhang Mosaic Image of comet Ikeya Zhang taken April 14, 2002 |
2004 Jupiter images May 2nd, 2004 image of Jupiter. May 2nd, 2004 image of Jupiter. March 23rd, 2004 image of Jupiter. |
Click here for
an animation of Asteroid 354 Eleonora. |
Mars opposition image 2005
Oct. 23, 2005 @ 07:10 UTC |
Some of my telescopes
My Meade 10" Newtonian |
Star Party near Tucson |
Meade 10" SCT on pier |
Meade 10" SCT at night |
Working with the LONEOS telescope, Flagstaff
1997 Comet Hale-Bopp photos taken near Tucson, Arizona
Comet Hale-Bopp photographs were taken around the greater Tucson area in 1997. Some pictures were taken from the foothills of Tucson, and others were from Geology-Vista Point in the Santa Catalina Mountains. Photographs with Saguaro cactus were taken near the Sonoran Desert Museum, west of Tucson. Photos with the comet reflecting in the water were taken at Agua Caliente park northeast of Tucson. Exposures ranged from 1 - 25 minutes. The longest exposures were piggybacked on a Meade 8" SCT.
Leonid Meteor Photographs taken near Florence Junction, AZ November 17, 1998.
First picture shows an actual Leonid metoer. The second picture is a close up. The third photo shows a debris cloud left over
from a very bright meteor train.
My friend James Ashley's website
Page updated: July 11, 2009
