The images presented in these pages were made between 1997 and 2000. My first attempt at astrophotography was in 1977 when the Comet Hale Bopp made it's spectacular visit to our neighborhood. I piggy-backed an Olympus 35mm camera and lens on my Celestron C5 for the 16-30 second exposures. The images are shown in the galleries.  I then graduated to a Mountain Instruments MI-250 German Equatorial mount and an Astro Physics 5" refractor telescope. The mount was controlled by a SBIG auto guider through a guide scope mounted on the main telescope. Images were made with a home made medium format camera with a Hasselblad 120mm film back. Exposures of 90 minutes were common for this set-up. Three images were usually made and the resulting negatives were scanned with a Polaroid large format scanner then the digital files were combined and registered via a special software program. Final image manipulation was achieved with Photoshop. Astro Photography with professional results takes a lot of specialized equipment, experience, skill and patience.