Images-Larry-Matney

Larry Matney

Larry is a long time landscape and wildlife photographer. In 2016 he purchased his first
telescope and started visual astronomy. A couple of years later he started to take
photographs with the telescope.
He now has several telescopes and also uses Nikon prime lenses as shorter telescopes to
obtain wide fields of view. They range in focal length from 50mm to 1625mm. He has a ZWO
AM5 mount and a Celestron CGEM DX mount. For visual use he has an assortment of
eyepieces.
For normal astrophotography he uses an unmodified Nikon D800e or a monochrome ZWO
ASI2600mm Pro camera with LRGB and narrowband filters (Ha, OIII, SII) to produce color
images. For guiding he uses an off axis guider with a ZWO ASI174mm Mini camera, or a
50mm f4.2 guide scope with a ZWO ASI120mm-S camera.
He recently started doing Solar imaging. This is mostly done with a DayStar Quark Ha filter
and a PlayerOne Apollo M Max camera on a 103mm or 150mm refractor.
He uses NINA with PHD2 for astrophotography imaging sessions, and SharpCap for Solar
sessions. For post processing he primarily uses Deep Sky Stacker (DSS) and Adobe
Photoshop.