Chris Cook is a professional wedding and portrait photographer who has also been photographing the night sky and environs for over 19 years. His award winning images have appeared in local, national and international publications, music CD covers as well as corporate brochures, calendars and annual reports. Most recently, his nightscape images were exhibited at the Cape Cod Museum of Art. Image awards include the 1995 Texas Star Party "Best Deep Sky Photograph", the 1989 NCRAL astrophotography contest, Astronomy magazine's "Best Astrophoto Award", and a finalist in LIFE magazine's "1999 Alfred Eisenstaedt Awards For Magazine Photography". Chris lives with his wife Jennifer on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.
Chris' nightscape & astrophotography images are represented by Photo Researchers, Inc. stock agency, the world leader in space & scientific photography.
Publications include the following:
Magazines
Newspapers
Books
Television
Educational Exhibits
Corporate Brochures, Calendars & Annual Reports
Online Publications
Published articles and product reviews
Equipment used by the photographer:
Telescopes
Cameras & Lenses
Mount & Hardware
CCD equipment
Computers & Software
You can contact
Chris here. ©
Chris Cook 2007
The New Yorker (US)
Santa Fean Magazine (US)
Cape Cod Magazine (US)
Cape Cod View (US)
Sky & Telescope (US)
Astronomy (US)
Night Sky (US)
Sky & Space (Australia)
Astronomy Now (UK)
Coelum (Italy)
GEO (Germany)
Stars & Universe (South Korea)
Aktuel Astronomi (Denmark)
The Orange County Register. Orange County, California.
The Cape Cod Voice. Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
Explorations, by Thomas T. Arny Ph.D.
Peterson's Field Guide to the Stars and Planets, 4th Edition by Jay M. Pasachoff
Astronomy - A Visual Guide by Mark A. Garlick
Practical Astronomy by Storm Dunlop
Deep Sky Observer's Guide by Neil Bone
Night Wonders by Jane Ann Peddicord
What's Up 2006: 365 Days of Skywatching by Tammy Plotner & Jeff Barbour (front cover photo)
Celestial Sampler by Sue French
WHDH Channel 7 NBC - Boston, Massachusetts
WIFR Channel 23 CBS - Rockford, Illinois
Griffith Observatory - "Pieces of the Sky - Meteorites" exhibit - Los Angeles, California
NASA - 2008 "Healthier You" NASA employee calendar
PDI, Inc. - 2000 Annual Report - Saddle River, New Jersey
PDI, Inc. - Medical Devices & Diagnostics sales brochure - Saddle River, New Jersey
NASA's APOD "Astronomy Picture Of The Day" for July 2, 2003, August 20, 2003, October 28, 2005 & March 10, 2007
"Jesse Greenstein Memorial Film" Palomar Observatory - California Institute of Technology
"StarTales" a publication of Lowell Observatory - Flagstaff, Arizona
NASA's "Spaceweather.com" site for June 27, 2003, April 28 & 30, 2004, January 10 & 12, 2007 and March 4, 2007
NASA's "Lunar Photo of the Day" for October 21, 2004
Image gallery - "SPACE.COM" for June 2004, November 2004, January 2007 and March 2007
Mr. Cook has also authored several product reviews and feature articles
on astrophotography for Sky & Telescope magazine. These articles can be found under the Articles section
of this site.
Stellarvue SV80S - 80mm f/6 triplet APO refractor
Celestron C9.25 - 9.25" f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain
Takahashi FS102 - 102mm f/8 fluorite APO refractor
TeleVue NP101 - 101mm f/5.4 APO refractor
TeleVue TV102 - 102mm f/8.6 APO refractor
TeleVue TV85 - 85mm f/7 APO refractor
Meade 127ED - 127mm f/9 ED refractor
Celestron C8 - 8" f/10 Schmidt Cassegrain
Vixen 60mm f/11 refractor
Takahashi E160 - 160mm f/3.3 hyperbolic astrograph
Canon EOS 5D, 20D & D60-IR digital bodies
Canon EF 17-40mm f/4 L USM, EF 24-70mm f/2.8 L USM, EF 70-200mm f/2.8 L USM, EF 15mm f/2.8 fisheye & EF 85mm f/1.8 USM lenses
Canon Powershot A610
Nikon FTn, F2A, F3 and F3HP 35mm format camera bodies
Nikon Coolpix 800 digital camera w/1600x1200 pixel CCD array
Nikkor 20mm f/2.8 Ai-S, 24mm f/2.8 non-Ai, 35mm f/2.8 Ai-S, 50mm f/1.8 Ai-S, 105mm f/2.5 Ai-S and 200mm f/4 Ai-S lenses
Nikkor 28-105mm f/3.5-4.5D IF lens
Zenitar 16mm f/2.8 Ai fisheye
Hasselblad 500C medium format camera body
50mm f/4 Zeiss Distagon, 80mm f/2.8 Zeiss Planar and 150mm f/4 Zeiss Sonnar lenses
Losmandy G11 equatorial mount, tripod, mounting hardware, leg levelers and dampening paws
Hutech mounting rings
Santa Barbara Instrument Group(SBIG) ST-8E NABG camera
Santa Barbara Instrument Group(SBIG) CFW-8 filter wheel
Santa Barbara Instrument Group(SBIG) ST-4 autoguider
Custom Scientific, Astrodon and Baader filters
Philips ToUCam Pro webcam
3.0GHz Pentium 4 HT with 2GB RAM - desktop
2.66GHz Pentium 4 with 512MB RAM - notebook
3.0Ghz Pentium D with 3GB RAM - desktop
Adobe Photoshop 6.0, 7.0, CS & CS2
Registax 2.1.1
VueScan 7.6.18
Pleadies Software SGBNR & PixInsight LE 1.0.1.141
Digital Light & Color - Picture Window Pro 2.5
Cyanogen MaxIm DL 4.11
RegiStar 1.0.7
Software Bisque/SBIG - CCDSoft 5.0
Software Bisque - The Sky 6.0