IWU Students in the Fall 2024 Astronomy Class produced some very nice Astrophotography as part of their Laboratory activities.  The telescope they used to take the images is a 5″ Vixen Refractor Telescope equipped with a high-quality CCD camera and finder.

  

 

Below are the Heart Nebula, the Andromeda Galaxy (M31), a galaxy in Triangulum (M33), and the California Nebula: