Steve Perrigo's Astro Page
The image that brought you here was an incredible image from the Hubble Space Telescope - it demonstrates gravity lensing caused by massive objects between us and remote galaxies.
My interest in astronomy has been growing over the past several years. Two years ago I purchased a Meade 8" Dobsonian telescope and have a tremendous time using it, both from my backyard in the light polluted Seattle area and at dark sky locations throughout Washington State. To fuel my interest, I've joined two local clubs, subscribe to three magazines devoted to astronomy and frequent web sites with latest developments. I also have a co-worker who is keenly interested in astronomy. My general observational interests are planetary viewing, deep sky viewing (when I get a chance) and satellite tracking. Since I am "into" raytracing I have had a lot of fun creating images with some basis in reality. Below you'll find a number of my images that were created in the spirit of concepts illustrated in Terrence Disckenson's book "The Universe and Beyond". In that book, he sprinkles "what if" images. For example - what would the Milky way look like if viewed from a planet circling a star located in the Small Magellanic Cloud - it would fill the sky (pages 110-111). In the images below I've "filled the sky" with some of the visual treats HST has been suppling to us. All of these images are available here as the thumbnails presented. Click on a thumbnail for a 400x300 sized image. All of these images are available at a resolution of 800x600 in the Graphic Developer's Forum of Compuserve (GO GRAPHDEV). Enjoy.
A composite of four images based on Hubble images.
The Long Trail to Cygnus. The Cygnus Loop.
Big Brother is Watching. The Hourglass Nebula
Under the Cat's Eye. The Cat's Eye Nebula
Deadworld. The Heart of the Eagle Nebula.
The following image is based on great imagry from the Voyager and Galileo missions. Read about how the image was created.
Information about this Image
All of the images on this page used source material from NASA/JPL to whom credit is due.
In closing ...
Have a Nice Day....