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Sun: 
Sunspot group; November 28, 1997 
Sunspots; November 20, 1999 
Sun spots on the solar disk; June 2, 2002
Total Eclipse August 11, 1999 from Turkey
Partial Solar Eclipse, June 10, 2002 
Mercury: 
August 29, 1998 
Solar Transit, November 8, 2006 
Venus: 
Jan, July 1998, April 1999 
Moon: 
Craters of the moon, south/central Idaho
Theophilus/Cyrillus/Catharina trio; April
12, 1997 
Mosaic 3/4 full; Jan 8, 1998 
Alpine valley; Feb 5, 1998 
Cresent Moon; April 28, 1998 
Waxing Moon; Ap 29, May 1, & May 3,
1998 
Mare Imbrium; Jan 8, 1998 
Craters Aristillus & Cassini; Mar 5,
1998 
Crater Albategnius; Mar 5, 1998 
Crater Walter; Mar 5, 1998 
Rilles Hyginus & Ariadaeus; Mar 5,
1998 
Proclus at full-moon showing rays 
Posidonius 
Just for fun; moon by "Earthshine";
April 28, 1998  
Asteroids 
Hebe: August 1998, Movies etc, 
NEO NY40 August 2002 
 
Jupiter: 
Oct 20, 1998; Movie of Jupiter's moons 
Oct 05,198 (Great Red Spot) and Io transit
Feb 11, 2002 
Oct 27, 1999; Jupiter's 4 brightest moons
Oct 31, 1999 using f/64 eyepiece
projection 
Dec 23, 1999 using f/64 eyepiece
projection, CYMW Color 
August 15,2001; Jupiter occulted by moon
Saturn: 
11/15/1997, 11/1/1998, 10/31/1999, 12/3/1999 12/2002
Uranus: 
Animation of Uranus and 2 moons, Oct 19-23,
1998 
Neptune: 
Animation of Neptune & Triton, Sept 22-27,
2000 
Neptune & Triton reverse motion, Sept
28- Oct 26, 2001 
Pluto: 
May 31, 1998; w/ proof pic June 13, 1998
June 13 & 16, 1998 
June 29, 2003; "movie" showing
displacement after 2hr 30 min 
Jul 31 thru Aug 28, 1998; Animation
showing Pluto's motion changing to retograde 
Comets: 
C/2002 E2 Snyder-Murakam, May 5, 2002 
C/2002 C1 Ikeya-Zhang, March 7 & April 28,
2002 
WM1-Linear -- Dec 7, 2001. 22 - 30sec
images stacked using AIP4. This sequence covers about 23 minutes.
Linear(C/1998 M5):-- March 14/15, 1999; The
"Stand Still" Comet 
Hale-Bopp: 
-- March 25, 1997 
-- April 11, 1997 
-- April 12, 1997 
HOENIG (2002) 
17P Holmes, the "puff ball"
comet 
Deep Space: 
Interesting Planetary Nebulae Messiers 1
17 20 27 57 97 
Nebulae in Orion; Featuring M42, the
"Great Nebula", NGC2023, M78, B33, NGC2024 
Globular star clusters Messiers 4 5 9 13
14 15 71 72 80 92 107 
Galaxies NGC 2903 4290, Messier 33 51 63
81 82 101 106 108 109 MilkyWay 
Open Clusters NGC 281, IC 5146 
Pulsars TON490 
Super Novea SN 2002 ap 
 
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