WT5L Astrophotography

This sub-domain of the WT5L.COM web site is dedicated to displaying and documenting my accomplishments in the difficult and often frustrating field of astrophotography. My home location is on the east coast of Florida approximately 30 miles south of the Kennedy Space Center. Although this seaside location suffers from moderate light pollution and frequent wind, I am fortunate to live near to one of the nation's best dark sky locations at the Chiefland Astronomy Village (CAV). I am also fortunate to be able to travel to CAV for most new Moon weekends throughout the year. The majority of my astronomical imaging is now done at the Chiefland Astronomy Village with some, mainly narrow-band imaging, done at my home in Indialantic.

By scrolling down to the bottom of this page, you will be presented with reduced photos of the latest astronomical objects that I have imaged. Additionally, clicking on any image will direct you to a web page offering more details about the particular object and hyperlinks to larger, wider-field images and/or close-ups on the object. Finally, by clicking a button on the left side of this page, a new page will load that contains complete sets of thumbnail images for all objects of a particular type. More information related to astrophotography is available by navigating through the various web pages as well as by visiting my blog at http://wt5l.blogspot.com/. Any questions or comments regarding the content of this website can be directed to my email address shown below:

Contact Information:

E-mail Address:

jon [at] wt5l [dot] com

About This Website:

Since this site contains both monochrome and color images, it is important that the display is properly adjusted for viewing.  Take a look at the following grayscale:

If your monitor is properly calibrated, you should be able to distiguish the 24 shades of gray shown in this image.  The white swath on the left should merge into the white of the background and the black swath on the right should merge into the black bar at the bottom of the swaths.  If you cannot distinguish the shades of gray, your monitor needs adjustments in brightness and contrast (at a minimum) to properly display images presented here.

For more information regarding a free monitor calibration wizard click on this link:

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Additionally, due to the layout of this site, all pages are best viewed at a 24-bitcolor depth.  Some images have been reduced to fit on the main webpages.

Principle Imaging Location:

Chiefland Astronomy Village, Florida

Latitude: 29^o 25m 12s North

Longitude: 82^o 51m 00s West

Alternate Imaging Location:

Indialantic, Florida

Latitude: 28^o 05m 00s North

Longitude: 80^o 36m 00s West