A Few of My Astro-type Pictures

I used a Minolta X-700, a Minolta SRT 101, or a Minolta SRT SC-II camera to take these pictures

Kitt Peak National Observatory: Venus, the top of the McMath-Pierce Solar telescope, and downtown Tucson, AZ just before sunrise
Photo by Michele Stark, July 1998

Kitt Peak National Observatory: time exposure with the telescopes lit by a near full moon, the constellation Cassiopeia can be seen in the upper right of the picture
Photo by Michele Stark, July 1998

Kitt Peak National Observatory: sunset from the roof of the 2.1m (86 inch) telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, July 1998

Kitt Peak National Observatory: Coude Feed Spectrograph on the roof of the 2.1m (86 inch) telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, July 1998

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Kitt Peak National Observatory: sunrise with the Mayall 4m telescope, and the Steward Observatory 2.3m telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, July 1998

Downtown Berkeley, CA
Photo by Michele Stark, Sep 2000

University of California, Berkeley
Photo by Michele Stark, Sep 2000

Sunset at McDonald Observatory from the 2.7m dome catwalk
Photo by Michele Stark, Jun 2002 (taken with Nikon FG camera)

Sunset at McDonald Observatory from the 2.7m dome catwalk
Photo by Michele Stark, Nov 2002

Sunset at Kitt Peak National Observatory from the 2.1m dome catwalk
Photo by Michele Stark, Nov 2002

A bad mosaic of the McDonald Observatory 2.7m telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, Nov 2002 (taken with Nikon FG camera)

A bad mosaic of the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1m telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, Nov 2002

An evening thunderstorm over Mexico silhouetting the peak of Baboquivari, viewed from the catwalk of the Kitt Peak National Observatory 2.1m telescope
Photo by Michele Stark, Sep 2003

View of the North-West evning sky from our driveway in Laramie, WY (November 1, 2007, about 10:00pm MDT, 30sec exposure) including the Pleiades (lower right of center), Hyades/Taurus (lower right), Perseus (center-left), bright star Capella (lower left). Comet Holmes is at the middle of the left side it looks like a slightly larger circle than the stars around it (picture with labels).
Photo by Michele Stark, Nov 2007