Photographer

Craig and Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

April 4, 2009

Equipment

Celestron C8 SCT with Celestron f/6.3 FR/FF on Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; modified Canon 350D w/Astronomik EOS Clip IR filter + 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; Best 96/105 120s @ ISO 1600; Captured/Calibrated/Registered/Stacked/Initial processing in ImagesPlus; Post processed in Photoshop CS4

Description

M51 in Canes Venatici is a beautiful face-on spiral just 3 degrees NE of Alkaid, the last star in the handle of The Big Dipper. The small companion galaxy is NGC5195. This image is slightly over 3 hours total integration time taken on April 4, 2009. The temperature was about 60° F.

Photographer

Dave Cotterell

Location

Castleton, ON, Canada

Date

2009 03 21, 1:56pm EDT

Equipment

Canon XSi, 10mm lens f/3.5, ISO 100, 1/1000sec.

Description

Single Solar Halos are fairly common when the sun shines through high thin cloud layers. The second, outer halo is much less commonly seen due to lack of contrast with the clouds and is also more difficult to photograph due to its large angular extent which puts it outside all but the widest lenses. Notice that the 'rainbow' colour effect which can be faintly seen is reversed in the secondary halo due to the double refraction. Also it can be seen that there is more scattered sunlight between the two halos than inside our outside them.

Photographer

Shawn Quinn

Location

On the coastal lava plain within Hawaii National Park

Date

May 2006

Equipment

Canon 10D on Tripod

Description

While hiking to a surface flow within Hawaii Volcanoes National Park under nearly a full moon, a brief shower moved through the area. I was able to capture the 'moonbow' over a lava flow. Image enhancement including the removal of thermal noise and CMOS sensor hot spots was performed with Photoshop.

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

03/18/09 04:58ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x, Astronomik LRGB filter set.

Description

Saturn on a very clear night in Puerto Rico, After a month of periodic rain showers. On the lower images oversaturated to show the very dim moons Tethys and Dione.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 30, 2009

Equipment

SBIG ST-4000XCM APM/TMB 130/780 Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M106 in Canes Venatici - 24x600sec, Imager Temp -20C. M106 (NGC 4258) is a Seyfert II galaxy in Canes Venatici. It lies at a distance of 22 to 25 million light years from earth and is receding at 537 km/sec. NGC 4217 is the bright edge-on spiral in the lower right of the frame, and may be a companion of M106. NGC 4248 is the small galaxy just to the upper right of M106.

Photographer

Chris Kotsiopoulos

E-mail

chriskots@gmail.com

Location

Athens, Greece

Date

27/3/2009 19:22 - 19:36 (UT +3)

Equipment

Canon EOS DIGITAL REBEL XTi 27/3/2009 19:22 - 19:36 (UT +3) Shutter Speed 0.5 sec Aperture Value 5.0 ISO 100 - 200 Lens Canon EF70-200mm f/4L USM Focal Length 200.0 mm

Description

The 2500 year old Parthenon and the New Moon (just over a day old). Good seeing and transparency conditions contributed to success in capturing the thin crescent from inside the heavily light polluted city of Athens. The photo is a composition of six stacked shots taken at 12 minute intervals. Note that the Moon hides behind the temple and then partially reapers just before it dives below the horizon. The shot is taken from the top of the Panathinaiko ancient stadium.

Photographer

Ian Mercier

Location

East Angus, Québec

Date

november 11

Equipment

Taken with 200/1000 Newtonian on EQ6 pro, QHY5 camera nad red filter

Description

This is an image of Clavius taken with my new QHY5 monochrome camera (First light) at F/d 15

Photographer

Elias Chasiotis

E-mail

eliasastro@freemail.gr

Location

Markopoulo, Greece.

Date

3/242009, 16:58UT, 3/25/2009, 04:14 UT.

Equipment

Canon EOS 450D, Canon EF 70-200 F2.8, Canon 2x converter/ at 400mm F5.6.

Description

To the left it is Venus as photographed last evening just after sundown. It had an altitude of only 6°at sunset (lat. 38° Ν) and was visible to the naked eye. This morning i tried to locate it again (altitude 5°at sunrise from my site). Managed to photograph it (right photo), but this time it wasn't visible to the naked eye due to haze. With better transparency conditions i am sure it could be located with the naked eye on both evening and morning. This evening and tomorrow morning there is a last chance to try again.

Photographer

Lorenzo Comolli

E-mail

comolli@libero.it

Location

Tradate (VA), Italy

Date

22 March 2009, 14.28 UT

Equipment

Newton 310mm f/5 plus barlow and webcam b/w. More info in the image

Description

Venus with a very thin phase near the inferior conjunction.

Photographer

Mark Sibole

E-mail

astronomy@qteaser.com

Location

Fife Lake Michigan

Date

several nights in February

Equipment

SXVF-H9,Trutech 8 position filter wheel,135 mm Sears camera lens all piggybacked on a Meade LX200R 10 inch.

Description

This image has over 6 hours of info of this very busy area. It was captured over several nights in February.