Through The Camera's Lens

Through The Lens
Views of the Heavens

Teri Smoot

montanacg at earthlink.net

Welcome to my website. The images on this site were, generally, taken in the Northern California foothills. Up here, it is usually fairly dark and reasonably clear. For more information about astronomy in this area, please visit either the Sacramento Valley Astronomy Society homepage or the TAC-SAC webpage. There is also a community observatory in Placerville called the Cameron Park Rotary Observatory. This observatory is open for public viewing every clear weekend from sundown until two hours after sundown (e.g, 8:30-10:30 pm in the summer).

This site also contains data that I have taken from my remote observatory in New Mexico, the Star Shadows Remote Observatory.

This web site will probably always be under construction. It is generally divided into a main section that can be accessed via the "Enter Here" Button below and a "What's New" section that can be accessed via the link above. This will bring up a Frame set with which different Messier, NGC, and Solar system objects can be accessed. In the future, I also plan on incorporating links to "how to" information and descriptions of how I do imaging.

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All images on this site copyright Montana Computer Graphics and, as appropriate, SSRO unless otherwise noted
Information regarding observed objects primarily taken from Burnham's Celestial Handbook

Sizes and magnitudes generally taken from Cartes du Ciel

Welcome to my website. The images on this site were, generally, taken in the Northern California foothills. Up here, it is usually fairly dark and reasonably clear. For more information about astronomy in this area, please visit either the Sacramento Valley Astronomy Society homepage or the TAC-SAC webpage. There is also a community observatory in Placerville called the Cameron Park Rotary Observatory. This observatory is open for public viewing every clear weekend from sundown until two hours after sundown (e.g, 8:30-10:30 pm in the summer).

This site also contains data that I have taken from my remote observatory in New Mexico, the Star Shadows Remote Observatory.

This web site will probably always be under construction. It is generally divided into a main section that can be accessed via the "Enter Here" Button below and a "What's New" section that can be accessed via the link above. This will bring up a Frame set with which different Messier, NGC, and Solar system objects can be accessed. In the future, I also plan on incorporating links to "how to" information and descriptions of how I do imaging.