Pat Prokop's Weather & Nature Page
Description: Astronomy Pictures from my telescopes in my backyard
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Hi, my name is Patrick Prokop from Savannah, GA. I am a retired broadcast meteorologist and amatuer astrophotographer. My goal for this page/blog is to share and to show that great deep-space and planetary images can be photographed in one's own backyard, even with bright city lights around. I live in a moderately high light polluted area ... Bortle rating of 4.5 . I have camera filters to delete some of the emitted artificial light resulting in better and more vivid pictures of the heavens. I hope you are
Added: August 5, 2022 ... Narrowband image of the Tulip Nebula This nebula takes the shape of the tulip flower. However, it is much larger and over 6,000 light-years away. I took this image using a monochrome camera and narrowband filters to arrive at a false color image. Within this nebula area is a Black Hole ... Cygnus X-1. Click on the image to see and read more about this fascinating deep space object. Added: January 28, 2022 ... Narrowband image of the Horsehead Nebula Since I captued a great image of
Added: October 27, 2019...Stephan's Quintet & The Deer Lick Group Two clusters of distant galaxies can be seen in this nearly 3 hour image containing more than many stars, it contains many galaxies. I have a video that goes along with it. Click on the title or the picture for more information, views and the video.
Pat Prokop's Weather & Nature Page