 Here are a few side-by-side comparisons of my photos to those in A Field Guide to the
Stars and Planets, by Donald H. Menzel, published by Houghton Mifflin Company of Boston, copyright 1964. My photos were taken with a Minolta XG-1 SLR mounted on top the
8" Newtonian telescope that was my first real telescope. This wide of a
field of view cannot be obtained through the telescope eyepiece. The scope was located on a pier with an equatorial mount in my parent's back
yard in Holly Hill Harbor, Mayo,
Maryland, sometime around 1982 or 1983, shortly after I got out of the USAF. Click on images for larger versions.
 
Kirt Blattenberger photo
Menzel photo Big Dipper Asterism in the Constellation of Ursa Major
 
Kirt Blattenberger photo
Menzel photo Cassiopeia Constellation
 
Kirt Blattenberger photo
Menzel photo Orion Constellation
 
Kirt Blattenberger photo
Menzel photo Pleiades Asterism in the Constellation of Taurus
Posted March 31, 2012
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