Photographer

Jerry Ferger

E-mail

jferger@rochester.rr.com

Location

Rochester, New York

Date

March 5, 2010

Equipment

Takahashi 106ED, f/5, Canon 300D, self modified, Astronomik CLS clip filter, CGE Mount, Orion Solitaire guider on Orion short tube 80mm scope, 20 X 240 sec exposures, ISO 800, processed in Images Plus and Photoshop

Description

The celebrated Orion and Running Man nebulae, approximately 1500 light years away, are an inspiring site either visually or photographically.

Photographer

Alson Wong

Location

Landers, CA

Date

February 13, 2010

Equipment

Vixen 102-ED TS Optics field flattener STL-11000M Paramount ME

Description

This image is of the emission nebulae IC 405 and IC 410.

Photographer

Barry Etter

E-mail

email@barryetter.com

Location

Mocksville, NC

Date

2/19/2010

Equipment

Telescope: Orion 8" f/4.9 w/Multi-Purpose Coma Corrector Camera: Canon 40D (modified)

Description

M81 (Bode's Galaxy) & M82 (Cigar Galaxy)

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 6, 2010

Equipment

SBIG ST-4000XCM, Celestron 9.25 Reduced 0.63, Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M97 (NGC3587) - The "Owl Nebula" in Ursa Major. 16x15min, Imager Temp -20C, 40% Crop. Known as the "Owl Nebula" for it's "eyes" that are seen on visual observation and in images, it is one of the more complex planetary nebulae. The mass of the nebula has been estimated to amount 0.15 solar masses, while the 16 mag central star is believed to be of about 0.7 solar masses. The nebula's age is about 6,000 years and it's distance is uncertain and listed anywhere from 1300 to 12,000 light years.

Photographer

Wynn Myers

Location

Central NC

Date

03/06/2010

Equipment

Orion 120 ED Atlas EQ-G Canon 350D modified Orion Starshoot autoguider Spike-A-Mask

Description

Captured and pre-process in Nebulosity (Macinosh). Post processing in Photoshop CS4. Taken at our dark sky spot in central NC on 03/06/2010. Seeing was about as good as it gets. Temp was approx. 19 deg F.

Photographer

Niels V. Christensen

E-mail

nvcchr@mail.dk

Location

Copenhagen Denmark

Date

5.->7. March-2010

Equipment

Meade LX200ACF 16" telescope on wedge used with 0.5X Optec NextGEN Widefield reducer. An SBIG ST-8XME camera also used and mounted with astronomik LRGB filters.

Description

The M51 color picture, LRGB, of this galaxy was taken 5.->7. March-2010. Additionally a 2" IDAS LPS filter was used to reduce the effect of the light polution in the Copenhagen Denmark area. Total exposure time ~5.5 hours, divided into LRGB 5. min. subs=39,10,10,10. CCDStack and Adobe Photoshop CS4 was used for picture enhancements. Deconvolution method tried as a trial on the stacked LUM layer and RGB layer before further enhancement performed.

Photographer

Kjell H. Winnem

E-mail

kjell.winnem@gmail.com

Location

Hof,Norway

Date

March 3&7 2010

Equipment

Homebuilt 10 inch Newtonian and mount in dome. Cam.:Meade DSI Pro II guided off-axis with modified ToUcam 840K Pro II and PHD,GPUSB interface to mount. Exp.:H-a 3x60min, SII 60min, OIII 60min, CFHT-palette. Processing:Nebulosity2 and PS CS3.

Description

The Medusa Nebula is a very old and large planetary in Gemini,also known as Abell 21. As it is so big,its surface brightness is very low,with surface magnitudes of between +16 and +25 reported. The Medusa was discovered i 1955, and until the early 1980s it was thought to be a supernova remnant.

Photographer

Tom Murdic

E-mail

murdic1@bellsouth.net

Location

Franklin, Tennessee,USA

Date

03/04/10 at 9:00 pm

Equipment

AT 66mm,coupled to a modified Canon XT on a Celestron CI 700 GEM.

Description

This image is the result of 60, 2 minutes light subs. IC 2177 is a very large emission nebula between the constellations of Monoceros and Canis Major. This nebula is also known as the Seagull Nebula

Photographer

Bill Jones

Location

Tennessee

Date

Jan 2010

Equipment

Beautiful and Cold Night Temp 18 degrees Developed in PS_CS3, Image Plus and Noise Ninja Canon Rebel XTi (400DH) spectrum enhanced camera with built-in astronomical UV/IR blocking filter (Type Ib) ) Primary Scope Celestron 1100 CGE with 6.3 Rerducer Guiding with Meade 80ED (.8 Reducer) Guiding PhD

Description

The Crab Nebula corresponds to the bright SN 1054 supernova that was recorded by Chinese and Arab astronomers in 1054 CE. The nebula was independently rediscovered in 1758 by Charles Messier as he was observing a bright comet. Messier catalogued it as the first entry in his catalogue of comet-like objects.

Photographer

Sergio Eguivar

Location

Mercedes, Buenos Aires

Date

November 2009

Equipment

SCOPE: Celestron C8 SCT working at f5.1 CAMERA: SXVF H9 GUIDING: William Optics Zenithstar 66 with WO 0.8 x fr/ff IMAGE ACQUISITION: AstroArt 3.0 - Control Interface 3.72 plug in FILTERS: Astronomik Type II - Atik Filter Wheel EXPOSURES: LRGB (95,30,30,40) PROCESSING: Images Plus, CCD Sharp, Photoshop CS2

Description

One of the finest barred spiral Galaxies of the sky and the largest spiral in the constellation of Fornax. NGC 1365 is as massive as our Milky Way and its structure spans over 200 thousands light years. The galaxy nucleus presents a well shaped bar which is surrounded by cooler stars that appear yellow in the image and had visible dust lanes. The bar ends in two main curved arms. Some HII regions were revealed in the image indicating star forming regions. NGC 1365 belongs to the Fornax Galaxy cluster, located a bit more that 1º from Chi2 Fornax near the limits with Eridanus. NGC 1365 and NGC 1399 are the brightest members of the mentioned cluster.