These images were taken on Universal Date Feb. 24th using the Stone Edge Observatory near Sonoma, CA.  This is a 20 inch telescope with a nice new big CCD camera.  The telescope in CA was operated remotely from Williams Bay, WI, last night. 

	•	Main Belt Asteroid 83 Beatrice. There are 7 images, in ten minute intervals, for an hour of observations.  I uploaded a movie and the set of aligned and cropped images. The asteroid is about 2AU from Earth.  It shines with reflected sunlight, which takes about 17.5 light-minutes to reach Earth from the asteroid.  Here is a link to the Orbit Diagram.  http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=83;orb=1;cov=0;log=0;cad=0#orb  From our point of view, Beatrice is in the constellation Taurus right now.  Later in April it will be in the constellation Gemini.  
	•	M42 Orion Nebula, a bright star-forming emission and reflection nebula in our own Milky Way Galaxy.   It is about 1300 light years distant from us.   
	•	M33 Triangulum Sprial Galaxy, NGC 598. This galaxy is about 3 million light years from us.  http://messier.seds.org/m/m033.html  It is part of our Local Group of Galaxies. It is easy to see the spiral arms because we are looking at it 'face on'.  
	•	M31 Andromeda Spiral Galaxy, NGC 224.  This galaxy is about 2.9 million light years from us.  http://messier.seds.org/m/m031.html  It is part of our Local Group of Galaxies and is our nearest large neighbor galaxy.  One can see it with the naked eye or easily with binoculars from a site away from city lights. 

There are also two pictures of the observatory and a picture of the telescope.