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Published Images

 

NASA Astronomy Picture Of The Day (APOD)

Star Cluster M34

  Feb. 11, 2010

Edge-on Spiral Galaxy NGC 891

  Feb. 25, 2010

The Elusive Jellyfish Nebula

  May 15, 2010

The Medusa Nebula

  June 12, 2010

The Perseus Cluster of Galaxies

  July 12, 2011

NGC 4565: Galaxy on Edge   Oct 15, 2011

   

Astronomy Magazine

Comet Lulin

Astronomy Newsletter - 4/10/09

NGC 7000 & IC 5070

Astronomy Newsletter - 11/13/09

NGC 7000 The Mountains of Cygnus

Astronomy Newsletter - 12/18/09

IC410 The Tadpoles

Astronomy Newsletter - 1/8/10

NGC 7000 & IC 5070

March, 2010 - Page 13

M74 Spiral galaxy

Astronomy Newsletter - 3/12/10

NGC4725 & 4747 Interacting galaxies

Astronomy Newsletter - 4/2/10

ARP 297 Interacting Galaxies

Astronomy Newsletter - 5/28/10

NGC 1333

July, 2010 - Page 11

NGC 5394 & 5394 (Arp 84)

Astronomy Newsletter - 8/13/10

NGC 4302 & 4298

March, 2011 - Page 54

NGC 2403

Astronomy Newsletter - 2/18/11

NGC 4302 & 4298

Reader Gallery May, 2011 - Page 78

NGC 5033

Astronomy Newsletter - 4/22/11

NGC 4395

Astronomy Newsletter - 5/20/11

ARP 84

Astronomy POD - 6/24/11

UGC 5829 The Spider Galaxy

Astronomy Newsletter - 7/7/11

Milky Way Over Monument Valley

Astronomy Newsletter - 7/29/11

NGC 6960 The Witch's Broom

Astronomy Newsletter - 9/30/11

IC443 & 444 The Jellyfish Nebula

Nov, 2011 - Page 29

 

Other Magazines

NGC 891

Science Magazine - 23 April 2010 - Whence the Spirals?

IC443 & 444

How It Works Magazine - Issue 24 - The Jellyfish Nebula

NGC 4395

Scientific American - Jan. 2012 - Goldilocks Black Holes

IC443 & 444

Geo Magazine - Feb. 2012  - At The End of The Universe

Miscellaneous Use & Awards

M34 Modern Solo Piano used the image as the background on various artworks for the 2010 festival at the Babylon Theater in Berlin, Germany.
IC 443 Used by the Hudson River Museum in their Sept/2010 Science Sunday event. This was a workshop, with Jimmy McBride, on creating patchwork quilts with astronomical images.
Arp 84 The October picture of the month in the Reims Planetarium newsletter and also used in the introduction/explanation part of a planetarium show about animals we can find in the sky.
NGC 6960 Northern Galactic Image of the Month Award for June 2011
Milky Way NASA's Earth Science Picture of the Day (EPOD)  7/30/2011
NGC 2237 Northern Galactic Image of the Month Award for August 2011
M34 Book:  Dream Walking For Kids