Photographer

stefano

Location

Colle del Nivolet (ITALY)

Date

09-30-2011

Equipment

Telescope Takahashi TOA 130 F/5,8 Camera Canon EOS50D Mount Vixen New Atlux

Description

The Great Galaxy of Andromeda captured at Colle del Nivolet on 09-30-2011. Telescope Takahashi TOA F/5,8 Camera Canon EOS50D with Baader Filter at 800 ISO Exposure 130 minutes and 15 X 1 minute for the core Mount Vixen New Atlux Autoguide SBIG ST4 on refractor 60/700mm Process DSS for align PhotoshopCs4 for curves and levels Noel's Carboni tools and Annie's actions for enhance dusts and the galaxies. CS Stefano Arrigoni Lissone (MI) ITALY

Photographer

Kevin Rasso

Location

Summerville SC

Date

October 25-26, 2011 late evening to early morning

Equipment

QSI 532ws M1 on William Optics ZenithStar 80mm ED II APO with TeleVue .8X FR piggybacked on Meade 10" LX200GPS with DSI Pro guiding. Astronomik Type IIc LRGB and 13nm Ha filters used.

Description

IC 1848 Soul Nebula found in the constellation of Cassiopeia. The area is rich in Hydrogen alpha gas which gives the nebula is reddish hue. The resemblance to a human embryo is remarkable.

Photographer

Tibor Mihalovits

Location

Cherry Springs,Pa

Date

11-4-11

Equipment

AT72ED/ATFF/Idas LP filter Canon T1i.Lx200 mount guided with SSAG/50mm guider

Description

NGC-2237 the Rosette Nebula.Taken 2 nights,2 locations. 12x3minutes,Idas LP filter.7 darks,flats from my redzone backyard.14x5minutes,no darks,flats,Cherry Springs,PA Stacked in DSS,finished in PI and PS-CS3

Photographer

Howard H Bower

E-mail

hbower7@cox.net

Location

Chandler, AZ

Date

11/16,11/18,11/23/2011

Equipment

The image represents 14 hours of exposure in the narrowband Ha,OIII,& SII filters using a Takahashi FSQ106ED refractor telescope and a QSI583wsg CCD camera. An Astro-Physics Mach 1 German Equatorial Mount and a Starlight Express Lodestar was used for tracking and guiding during the long exposures.

Description

The California Nebula (NGC1499) is an emission nebula located in the constellation Perseus. It is so named because it appears to resemble the outline of the State of California on long exposure photographs. Its characteristic glow of atomic hydrogen gas is powered by ultraviolet light from luminous blue star Xi Persei. The area around this star is the only trace of OIII in the FOV. The nebula is almost 2.5° long on the sky and, because of its very low surface brightness it is extremely difficult to observe visually. It can be observed with a H-Beta filter (isolates the H-Beta line at 486 nm) in a rich-field telescope under dark skies. It lies at a distance of about 1,000 light-years from Earth.

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN, USA

Date

October 15, 21 & 31, 2011

Equipment

Lens: Pentax 150mm 6x7 @ f/4 Accessories: Dew control by Dew Buster; Alnitak Flat-Man Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2 Camera: QSI583wsg CCD @ -10.0C Guiding: Starlight Xpress Lodestar via PHD Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OIII & SII Exposure: 16 x 15min. (Ha), 16 x 15min. (OIII), 16 x 15min. (SII) Acquisition: ImagesPlus Camera Control v4.3 Processing: Registration in Registar Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5; Gradient XTerminator; Noise Ninja; Carboni's Actions; ImagesPlus 4.5

Description

The Heart (IC1805, Sh2-190) and Soul (IC1848, Sh2-199, LBN 667) are a pair of emission nebulae that lie some 7,500 light-years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. While IC1848 is often used as the designation for the Soul Nebula, it is actually the open cluster in the "body" of the nebula. The correct designation for the Soul Nebula is LBN 667, also known as Sh2-199. In the upper left corner is an emission nebula designated Sh2-200 and a star cluster known as Trumpler 3.

Photographer

Darwyn settles

Location

Bells Run, Ky

Date

September 2011

Equipment

Explore scientific ED 80 triplet,Modified Canon XS,Orion Sirius Eq go to mount.

Description

Andromeda 2011

Photographer

Tibor Mihalovits

E-mail

mtibor64@comcast.net

Location

Cherry Springs,Pa

Date

11-14-11

Equipment

10"Newt./Mpccc Atlas mount/SSAG/Mini-guider Canon Xsi

Description

41x3min,iso1600,flats,no darks. Stacked in DSS,processed in PixInsight and PS-CS3

Photographer

Fredrik Komstadius

E-mail

komstadius@gmail.com

Location

Spain

Date

Summer 2011

Equipment

Takahashi TOA-150mm - FL 1095mm @ f/7.3 Camera: SBIG ST11000M - ABG

Description

The phoyo show The Crescent Nebula. It was taken via Global Rent a Scope in Spain using: R: Ha, 900s G: Made from Ha and OIII B: OIII, 900s

Photographer

Fredrik Komstadius

Location

Linköping, Sweden

Date

2011-11-14, 20:00

Equipment

Canon EOS 350D using a Tokina 400mm lens as 5.8. Mount: NEQ6 Pro Autoguiding: Camera piggybacked on my Astromaster 130 which I used as a guide scope. QCam5 was used as guidecam.

Description

The photo shows Andromeda taken from my pretty light polluted backyard. Total exposure time was 85 minutes with an additional 45 minutes of dark frames. (previously sent in this picture but I just saw it was too large to be accepted)

Photographer

Petr Michalik

Location

Mala Hrastice, Czech Republic

Date

2011/9/10.7801 UTC

Equipment

Camera Atik16IC with f7.5 Sky-Watcher 80ED on HEQ-5 Pro mount, 40 min. exp. with I filter

Description

Comparation of the M101 galaxy a few days before and a few days after the supernova explosion. The estimated supernova magnitude on left image is 10.31.