Observers set up their telescopes under the starry sky

Scopes bathed in the red glow awaiting darkness

M27 - The Dumbell Nebula in Cygnus

The Dumbell Nebula in Cygnus

A closer look at M27

Jupiter and The four Galilean Moons

Jupiter with one Moon disappearing into the glare

M57 - The Ring Nebula in Lyra

A closer look at The Ring Nebula located

between the two bottom stars in Lyra

A great shot from Debra of The Stars wheeling

over Mt. Elphinstone

Jupiter around 12.15am - still low and difficult to see detail

Jupiter around 1.00am.  The Great Red Spot was swinging into view on The South Equatorial Belt

This was difficult to detect visually, but after some time we all began to see it.

A stack of 1945 frames.

Jupiter and The GRS - 1.00am

(The GRS arrived on the Meridian (center line) of Jupiter around 2.33am PST)

A stack of 250 frames

Image Processing does as much to reveal

detail as the scope and the camera.

This image is from a different processing run.

M51 - The Whirlpol Galaxy.

A 30 second exposure, or one second

for every Million Light Years distance.

A masking layer was used to brighten the Galaxy

in this version of the previous image.

See page 88 of July 2008 Sky & Telescope

Magazine to see how this was done.

The Moon ended the show with a grand entrance

at around 3.00am.

June 18th: The 'Solstice' Moon Rises Above Davis Bay