Baker Artist Portfolios

On freezing, cool, warm or hot evenings with clear skies, Herman Heyn packs his 8" Schmidt-Cassegrain-style telescope and tripod into his car and heads for Fells Point, Baltimore, MD. His interest is to share his love of viewing celestial objects such as craters on our Moon, polar ice caps on mars, rings of Saturn, moons of Jupiter, the blue-green hue of Uranus (even sunspots occasionally during the day) with any and all who want to see. His telescope sports a sign that describes his devotion: HAV-A-LOOK! This video shows 5+
minutes of one night's performance in Fells Point.

My visit to the ruins at Persepolis, Iran where I discovered a carved inscription from 1870 by Stanley of the famous "Stanley and Livingston" story.

The photograph of twenty-five images was taken on one exposure! Herman made a card with twenty-five tiny squares that fit over the viewfinder. Without advancing the film he carefully aligned the Sun from one grid frame to the next every ten minutes. He had to use a filter when the Sun was bright and removed it as the sky became dark and the sun was mostly obscured by the Moon.

Herman was on the Cunard Adventurer, 900 miles off the coast of Trinidad. Since boats are always in motion from the heaves and swells, his patience was tested.