The light gathering ability of a 16" telescope coupled with Meade's "Advanced Come-Free" design in a Dark-Sky Preserve provides exceptional astrophotographic capability.
On July 9, the telescope was aligned to better enable long duration astrophotography.
 Using today's stacking technology and cooled CCD cameras will yield outstanding results.
Initial DSLR photography was obtained to demonstrate the capability of single image, "thumb-on-the-shutter" exposures.
All the images (below) were taken with the primary (16") or secondary (130mm) telescopes.
The light gathering ability of a 16" telescope coupled with Meade's "Advanced Come-Free" design in a Dark-Sky Preserve provides exceptional astrophotographic capability. On July 9, the telescope was aligned to better enable long duration astrophotography.  Using today's stacking technology and cooled CCD cameras will yield outstanding results. Initial DSLR photography was obtained to demonstrate the capability of single image, "thumb-on-the-shutter" exposures. All the images (below) were taken with the primary (16") or secondary (130mm) telescopes.
Killarney Provincial Park Observatory