Booth 618
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About the Artist
I have a 130mm TMB telescope with an Apogee U8300 CCD camera at my home observatory in Connellsville Pa. Some of my work is captured with a 17in Planewave telescope with an Apogee U16 CCD camera remotely operated in the Sierra Nevada Mountains in California.I now also have my own equipment located in Yass Australia that I can remotely operate from my home. All my photographs are results of multiple exposures totaling 15 to 40 hrs of exposure time for each object. This long exposure time results in the rich color and deep detail of my photos. Using special filters I am able to capture the different gasses in the various objects. The ejected envelope of the gases start to glow from the radiation created by nearby stars, just like a neon sign. Hydrogen and sulfur glow red. Oxygen glows blue-green - a beautiful teal color. They emit light at very specific wavelengths. The colors of this ionization process therefore come from emissions of the various chemical elements.
Based in Connellsville, Pennsylvania.
