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This site last updated:
03/19/2008

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Open Star Cluster M41
in Canis Major

Yep...this is me, Pat Freeman, standing outside my "field home", otherwise known as a Kendrick Observatory Tent.  This tent is my home-away-from-home for week-long astrophotography outings.  You can just make out the Meade 12" LX200GPS telescope in the tent, directly behind me.    This telescope is my primary astrophotography platform nowadays.  

I've been interested in astronomy since my teenage years in my home state of Ohio.  When I was about 12, my father gave me a 4" Criterion Dynascope reflector he'd won in a raffle at work, and that telescope introduced me to the brighter planets, including Jupiter, Mars, and Saturn.  I got my first serious telescope, an 8" Celestron C-8 Deluxe Computerized SCT, in 1997.  I can still remember my first night out with it, and the thrill of seeing the Ring Nebula and M13 through it.  In 2002 I moved upscale with a 12" Meade LX200GPS go-to telescope.  I added a Televue-85 refractor in 2004.  All three of my latest telescopes have been used for the astrophotos you will see on this website. 

I have several favorite observing / astrophotography sites.  One is the Cincinnati Astronomical Society's dark-sky site in Adams County, Ohio.  One is the Caesar Creek State Park area in southwest Ohio.  And even though it's an 875-mile drive from my home in west-central Ohio, one of my favorite sites is the Chiefland Astronomy Village in Florida.  Most of the pictures you see on this website were taken at one of these three favorite locations.