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Contact information
e-mail
tvdavis@allidaho.com
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websites
astophotography:
http://www.tvdavisastropics.com
professional:
http://www.seigastro.com/
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Locator
Map
http://www.frappr.com/apppublic
Level of accuracy: town of Inkom, Idaho U.S.A.
Biography
Like a lot of
amateur astronomers, I started taking images of the night sky because what
I saw through the eyepiece was not what I was seeing on the printed page.
As a boy, I frequented our local library and checked out every astronomy
book that I could find. I would spend countless hours looking over the
pictures taken by professional astronomers from places like Palomar
Mountain and Mt. Wilson. When I finally got my first telescope (age 12) I
was less than impressed by what I saw. The little (60mm) Sears refractor
didn't show me any of the fantastic images that I saw in those books.
None-the-less, I was able to see the rings of Saturn and "bam" I was
hooked. It wasn't until years later that I was able to return to the
night sky. After finishing school, my family and I moved to southeast
Idaho. The sky was darker than anywhere I had previously lived -- so I
started back into astronomy. I first imaged with film; an OM-1
piggybacked on a Celestron-8 SCT. After some success I decided to go with
CCD imaging. My first camera was an ST-237 with color wheel. It helped
me learn the process of taking color CCD images and begin down the road of
image processing. I live at 5745 feet above sea level on the east side
on Bonneville Peak. I enjoy magnitude 6.7-6.8 skies but my seeing does
suffer due to the mountains in the area and the frequency of the jet
stream.
Astrophotography publications
Magazines
BBC Sky at Night
Magazine
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websites
APOD (NASA)
Universe Today
Utah Skies
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Newspapers
Idaho State Journal,
Pocatello, ID;
Idaho Statesman,
Boise, ID;
Post Register,
Idaho Falls, ID
Observing site
Starsearch
Observatory, Inkom, ID
N 42deg 47” 00’, W 112deg 10” 00’ elevation 1747m
Astronomical Equipment
Telescopes
10” f/4
custom aspherical Mak-Newt astrograph
Astro-Physics 155EDF f/7
Astro-Physics 105EDF f/6
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Mounts
Astro-Physics
1200GTO
Losmandy G-11
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Cameras
SBIG
STL-11000M
SBIG ST-10XME
SBIG ST-402E
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Software
Maxim DL/CCD, Photoshop CS2, CCDStack
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