The following gallery of images are from
the 1970's. These are the only prints that I have of those early years of my
telescopes, Jim Irwin of Apollo 15, Ravel and Estes model rockets and some of my
very early "print" astrophotography. My collection of slides are not
included here. The Black & White photographs are the result
of my own darkroom work, the negatives were developed and the prints processed
and dried all by hand.
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Tasco 60mm refractor 700mm focal length, 7/3/1973 at Lake Tahoe, CA looking Southeast. |
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The day my Unitron 3" f/16 refractor arrived, 7/5/1974. |
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Los Gatos, California, 820 feet elevation, 122.05 W 37.24 N. |
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A very new Unitron 3" f/16 refractor, July 1974. |
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The eyepieces are 0.96" diameter. |
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The "Unihex" held 5 eyepieces in a rotatable prisim diagonal. This made switching from one eyepiece a snap. |
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Configuration for 35mm photography at prime focus. |
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The Solar Projection screen configuration is shown. |
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The set-up for visual observing with the Unihex. Note the 35mm piggyback. |
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Estes Saturn 1B ready to launch on four C6-3's. |
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All four ignited! |
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Recovery on three 24 inch chutes made from a plastic picnic table table cloth. The Command Module nose cone came down on a nearby rooftop and was recovered. |
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Construction of the Saturn V launch gantry. |
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This was a custom 1/100th scale build. |
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The Apollo 15 Command Module at the World's Fair in Spokane, Washington in 1974. |
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Jim Irwin and the Saturn V on 12/1/1971. This was less than four months after Apollo 15 returned from the moon. |
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I had the opportunity to meet Jim Irwin, the lunar module pilot of Apollo 15, in the privacy of his wife's parent's home in San Jose, CA. |
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The autograph taking place on the picture of Irwin in front of the "Falcon" and Hadley Delta on Apollo 15. |
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Note Jim Irwin's signature on Hadely Delta. |
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Note Jim Irwin's signature on the second stage of the Saturn V. |
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Estes Orbital Transport model rocket. This model and glider flew many times. |
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Jupiter with some moons and some background stars. |
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Sunrise behind Lick Observatory on Mount Hamilton, CA. |
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Moon and Venus on April 16, 1972 7:30 PM PDT. Imaged with a Kodak Brownie Reflex camera. The color negative was enlarged and printed on B&W paper. |
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Moon and Venus April 16, 1972. This was only a few hours after the launch of Apollo 16! I thought it was Apollo 16 and was disapointed to find out the next day that it was Venus. |
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Saturn. An extreem enlargment of a very tiny image. |
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