Photographer

Herb BUbert

E-mail

Budboy49@aol.com

Location

Hillsboro, NH

Date

11-29-08 all night

Equipment

William Optics Zenithstar 80FD with William Optics .8x flattener. Modified Canon 300D. Losmandy Titan.

Description

This image shows the newborn stars, nebulosity and dust in the bright vertical area below Orion's Belt known as Orion's Sword. It contains the star cluster NGC1981, M42- (the Orion Nebula which also contains a group of stars known as the Trapezium), M43 and the diffuse nebula NGC1977(also called the Running Man Nebula).

Photographer

William Rison

Location

Newburg, Maryland

Date

1/4/2009 2AM, 3/2/2008

Equipment

Meade 12" LX200R on an Astro-Physics 900GTO mount. Lumenera SKYnyx2-0 camera with 1.5x barlow produced a focal length of 6096mm at f/20. Video was processed with ImagesPlus 3.5 to produce the final pictures.

Description

Saturn's rings now appear virtually edge-on as Earth passes through the ring plane this year.

Photographer

Robert Pipala

E-mail

robert.pipala@gmail.com

Location

Mt. Everest Base Camp, Tibet

Date

10.10.2008

Equipment

Tripod-mounted Canon EOS 30D and a zoom lens at 17 mm. The exposure was 60 sec f/4 ISO 1000.

Description

Orion rise above Himalaya sky, as the Moon still illuminated Mt. Everest massif.

Photographer

Bryan Cogdell

Location

Fremont Peak, CA

Date

Morning of 12/1/2008

Equipment

Orion 190mm f/5.3 Mak-Newt Astrograph & Orion StarShoot Pro Color CCD, mounted on the AP900GTO

Description

The colorfully diverse Nebula Complex NGC 2264 contains the Cone Nebula, Foxfur Nebula and Christmas Tree Cluster.

Photographer

Tom Fleming

Location

near Great Falls Montana

Date

Dec 1st

Equipment

Nikon D300 and short tele

Description

This image taken by my brother-in-law, Gordon Hill, while visiting in Montana.

Photographer

Ehsan

E-mail

ehsansanaei@yahoo.com

Location

Ardakan, Iran

Date

Janurary 2007

Equipment

Nikon D70s, 18-70 mm lens @ 18 mm

Description

A skygazer observe the fantastic Orion nebula with binoculars.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

December 28, 2008

Equipment

Baader Mod Canon 350D, Canon 70-200L f/2.8 lens at 70mm f/3.2, Astronomik CLS Clip Filter, Baader 2" 7nm Ha Filter, Step Down Rings, Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

Barnard's Loop (Sharpless 2-276) is an emission nebula in the constellation of Orion. It is part of a giant molecular cloud which also contains the bright Horsehead and Orion nebulae. The stars within the Orion Nebula are believed to be responsible for ionizing the loop. Color Data: 46x120sec at iso 1600 Astronomik CLS Clip Filter Hydrogen Alpha: 15x600sec at iso 1600 Baader 2 inch 7nm H alpha filter Step Down Rings

Photographer

Weike Pan

Location

Yinna mountain, Meizhou, China

Date

2008.11.20 & 11.30

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ106ED at F5, STL-11000M, Astrodon LRGB filter set, Takahashi EM-200

Description

This is an exposure of 10.5 hours total which reveals the rich nebula around M45. It remind us that our space isn't empty and dark, but full of gas and dust.

Photographer

Frankie Lucena

E-mail

frankie57pr@yahoo.com

Location

Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

Date

12/13/2008 at aprox. 10:55pm

Equipment

Kodak Z740 digital camera at F/2.8 for 8 secs at 400 asa.

Description

By shielding the Moon's glare with the roof of the house, I was able to photograph this Geminid meteor gliding through Orion's belt.

Photographer

Vangelis Tsintsifas

E-mail

tsintsifas@yahoo.gr

Location

Mount Olympus, Greece

Date

01-Dec-2008, 18:00

Equipment

Nikon D40x,Tokina 80-400 at 300mm,f/6.3,1/1.3s,ISO400.

Description

Conjunction between Moon, Venus, and Jupiter, as it sets behind Mount Olympus.