This page is the entrance hall of the "Al Bustan" Gallery.

The purpose of the Gallery is not to show-off pictures but to give the visitors a better understanding of some of the objects which inhabit our large Universe. For that purpose,  a brief and simple text introduction is given for the objects covered on each section of the Gallery. 

The pictures displayed were taken with the equipment presented in the "Equipment" page. In addition to those pictures taken in the Observatory you can also find others taken with large telescope facilites, such as the Hubble Space Telescope (HST).

The ladder to the top of astrophotography does have many steps. Scope collimation, focusing, imaging techniques and image processing are a few of the various topics that must be mastered for a good astrophoto.

The pictures shown in the Gallery are not masterpieces. They just represent the work produced by an amateur astronomer with a limited spare time and limited budget.