Photographer

William Warden

Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Date

8/27-28/08, 9/27-30/08

Equipment

8" LX200R scope, G11 Mount, SX AO .2 sec exposures, IDAS LPR filter, Ha CS 10 nm filter, Oiii baader 8.5 nm filter, SX H9 Camera. Luminance 28x2 min, Ha and Oiii 17x5 min each

Description

Globular cluster M 15 augmented with narrow band filters to enhance planetary nebula Pease 1 (red object lower right of core). Pease 1 was the first planetary nebula found in a globular cluster. It was initially noted to appear very bright on a photographic plate using a Pulkovo ultra-violet filter compared to neighboring stars (otherwise of about equal magnitude). Subsequent spectrographic study revealed green lines of oxygen characteristic of planetary nebulae as well as red lines of hydrogen. A larger version is available here: http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/M15-f10-2008-800r.jpg Here's a nice article on the topic by Leos Ondra: http://www.seds.org/MESSIER/xtra/leos/pease1.html

Photographer

Mark Sibole

E-mail

astronomy@qteaser.com

Location

Fife Lake Mi.

Date

sept 22 2008

Equipment

Meade 80 mm APO SXVF-H9

Description

Object name: VdB: 152 Magnitude: 8.8 Equatorial: RA: 22h 13m 39s Dec: +70°17'53"(current) Equatorial 2000: RA: 22h 13m 25s Dec: +70°15'05" Horizon: Azim: 27°59'08" Alt: +50°49'43" Transit time: 23:45 Always above horizon. Mark Sibole Fife lake Michigan September 21, 2008 astronomy@qteaser.com Meade 80 mm APO SXVF-H9 120 minutes of luminance information in 10 minute sub frames 40 minutes per color channel in 10 minute sub frames. A total of 4 hours of information went into this rarly images area. It is a mix of reflection Nebula and dusty region .

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington Ohio

Date

September 22, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

NGC 7479 in Pegasus 50x180sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias NGC 7479 (Caldwell 44) is a barred spiral galaxy about 105 million light-years away and roughly 120,000 ly across (20% larger than our Milky Way). NGC 7479 is also recognized as a Seyfert galaxy undergoing starburst activity in the nucleus and the outer arms. Studies of this galaxy indicate it recently underwent a minor merger and that it is unique in that the radio signal shows arms that are opening in an opposite direction to the optical arms.

Photographer

Robert Casey

E-mail

wa2ise@ix.netcom.com

Location

Bellevue WA

Date

sept 26, 2008 6PM

Equipment

Panasonic Lumix FX500

Description

Antique Spitz Planetarium projector, overall view

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson53@shaw.ca

Location

Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Date

Sunday September 28 2008, 11:27 am

Equipment

Canon 40D prime focus with Coronado PST.

Description

Took some shots of solar prominences on September 28 2008 with my Canon 40D camera prime focused with my Coronado PST. 1/40 second exposure ISO 1600.

Photographer

Adrian

Location

San Jose Ca.

Date

9-28-8

Equipment

CoronadoPST Nikon coolpix 4500

Description

Nice proms on the sun today

Photographer

Adrian Guzman

E-mail

bricks5@aol.com

Location

San Jose Ca.

Date

9-29-08 12:42

Equipment

PST coolpix 4500

Description

today was a good day of proms

Photographer

Odilon Simões Corrêa

Location

Araxá, Brazil

Date

September 1, 2008 - 21h 30m UT

Equipment

Panasonic DMC-FX3 digital camera

Description

The beautiful view of the Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars is enriched by the birds in an interesting V-formation flight.

Photographer

Les Tilly

Location

Coyle fields New Jersey

Date

8/31/08

Equipment

STV 102ED with WO f/f stage II Canon 40D Losmandy G11 with Celestron 80mm short tube and DSI pro II for guiding with PHD

Description

3 hours in total each exposure was 5 minutes ISO 1600 calibrated in Deepsky Stacker and processed in Photoshop CS2

Photographer

Ben Adlof

Location

Canton, MI

Date

9/2/08 10:07 pm EDT

Equipment

C-8 + Meade LPI + 2X Barlow

Description

The LPI and 2X Barlow easily split each pair.