Astrophotography by Dave Kodama (kodama@alumni.caltech.edu)

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Welcome to the astrophotography corner of my personal web site. Here you'll find my photos of astronomical objects ranging from nearby subjects such as meteors, the moon, planets, and the sun, to distant objects such as gas and dust clouds and star clusters inside our galaxy, to galaxies outside our own Milky Way galaxy. My special interests are wide-field photos (as opposed to highly magnified views such as from the Hubble telescope), and especially of challenging transient targets such as meteors, comets, and eclipses. For most of these photos, I prefer to continue to shoot film, though you will also find some electronic images here too.

I welcome any questions or comments you care to send, especially if you are also interested in astrophotography. I hope the technical info I have on the site will aid and encourage your own astrophotography efforts.

Recent Photos:
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Sept 2008 -
Cassiopeia Panorama

 
August 2008 -
Solar Eclipse from China

 
 
The Dark Side of Ophiuchus
Rho Ophiuchus Area Revisited Comet Holmes / California Nebula Encounter Sequence
 
   
Total Lunar Eclipse
2/20/2008

Comet Holmes & Comet Tuttle
(12/30/2007)
Comet Holmes & the California Nebula
(2/9/2008)
Comet Holmes / California Nebula Encounter
(2/26/2008)
Rocket Fuel Dump in Orion
(11/11/2007)
Comet 17P/Homes
(11/11/2007)
Comet 17P/Homes
(12/2/2007)
Comet Homes Evolves
[Updated 12/6/2007]


Wide Views

Polar Trails | Taurus-Perseus | Orion | Canis Major | Cassiopeia | Auriga Region | Leo | The Dippers | The Summer Triangle | Scorpius | Centaurus and the Southern Cross .