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Joe Petrick's Astronomy Homepage |
Updated: December 4th , 2009
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Music by: Jim Anderson (Lead Guitar) Bob Modica (Guitar) Joe Petrick (Vocal & Guitar)
Click here for my You Tube music site The Kaminowski Saturn
Welcome to my Astronomy Homepage. I live in Chesterland,Ohio which is around thirty miles east of Cleveland,Ohio. I got interested in Astronomy in college when I saw Saturn through a small telescope. I ,also,enjoy playing the guitar and a couple buddies and I play at some local spots. I'm a real Neil Young fan so you will hear his music throughout me site. Well let's get down to it. I purchased my first computer controlled telescope in 1996. It was a twelve inch Meade LX200. I soon realized that to get full use of the telescope I would need to have it permanently housed in a building. In 1998 I purchased a ten foot Homedome from Technical Innovations. That year I built my current setup. A ten foot Homedome with a nine foot square warm room next to it . In 2003 I donated my twelve inch LX200 to my astronomy club ( Chagrin valley Astronomical; Society, CVAS when I purchased my current fourteen inch L:X200. In 2004 I purchased a Takahashi FSQ 106N which is now piggybacked on my fourteen inch. Most of my images were taken with my first CCD camera which was the Meade Pictor 416XTE which I purchased in 1999. In 2005 I purchased a new CCD camera which is the SGIG 2000XM. I now image with that camera or with a Canon 10 D. digital camera. I've had six different images published in Astronomy Magazine with the latest being published in October of 2009. My telescope and computer mount are now all computer-controlled. I can control everything over the Internet. Click on the images to enlarge them and most will have comments explaining the equipment used. Enjoy the images . |
