Photographer

Lynn Hilborn

E-mail

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca

Location

Grafton, Ontario

Date

July 15,21,26,2011

Equipment

TEC 140 @f5.6, FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters and a Takahashi NJP Temma 2 mount.

Description

Eastern Veil NGC 6992 (part of the Cygnus Loop) in narrow band. 12 hours of exposure, 4 hours each OIII, Ha, SII as RGB. Bin 1x1 with FLI ML8300 camera and TEC140 @f5.6. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Obs, Grafton, Ontario...July 15,21,26,2011.

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

August 28, 2011

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 12x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutes

Description

This is an image of NGC 7023, also known as the Iris Nebula. NGC 7023 is a bright reflection nebula in the constellation Cepheus. The nebula is reflecting light from the bright central star HD 200775. You can also see the dark cloud of dust and gas surrounding the nebula. This dark cloud consists of tiny particles of solid matter, with sizes from ten to a hundred times smaller than those of the dust grains we find at home. The nebula is about 1300 light years away and has a diameter of about 6 light years.

Photographer

Maurizio Cabibbo

E-mail

mau.cab@libero.it

Location

Italia

Date

Via delle Querce 33

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII f/3,6 guided with Orion SSA on Takahashi TOA130. Losmandy G11 mount. Canon 1000D modified Baader Planetarium. 11x5 min Petriolo (SI) Italy

Description

Emission nebula in Cassiopeia

Photographer

Maurizio Cabibbo

E-mail

mau.cab@libero.it

Location

Italia

Date

Via delle Querce 33

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII f/3,6 guided with Orion SSA on Takahashi TOA130. Losmandy G11 mount. Canon 1000D modified Baader Planetarium. 11x5 min. Petriolo (SI) Italy

Description

Emission nebula in the constellation Perseus.

Photographer

Maurizio Cabibbo

E-mail

mau.cab@libero.it

Location

Italia

Date

Via delle Querce 33

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ106EDXIII f/3,6 guided with Orion SSA on Takahashi TOA130. Losmandy G11 mount. Canon 1000D modified Baader Planetarium. 11x5 min. Poggio di Montieri (GR) Italy

Description

Star Tarazed and E nebula in the constellation Eagle

Photographer

Niels V. Christensen

E-mail

nvcchr@mail.dk

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

Sep-2011 and July-2009

Equipment

Telesope Meade LX200ACF 16" mounted on wedge and SBIG ST-8XME camera. Astronomik Ha,OIII,SII filters used.

Description

Narrowband picture of NGC7635 which consist of Ha,OIII and SII subs taken in 2009 and in 2011. The Hubble palette is used and total exposure time was ~9.3 Hours.The picture was created as a LUM(HaOIIISII),SII,Ha,OIII picture. Number of sub-frames were Ha=14*10min+15*5min, OIII=12*10min+14*5min. and SII=13*10min+5*5min. More information and pictures via www.astro-hp.dk

Photographer

Howard H Bower

E-mail

hbower7@cox.net

Location

McCordsville, IN

Date

August 30/31, 2011 10pm-2am

Equipment

Imaging Telescope - TEC140ED Imaging Camera - QSI583wsg Autoguider - SX Lodestar Mounting - APMach1 GTO

Description

This image of the open star cluster NGC7380, also known as the Wizard Nebula spanning an area on the sky of about 5 times the size of the full moon. NGC 7380 is located in the constellation Cepheus about 7,000 light-years from Earth within the Milky Way Galaxy. The star cluster is embedded in a nebula, which spans some 110 light-years. The stars of NGC 7380 have emerged from this star-forming region in the last 5 million years or so, making it a relatively young cluster. The image @f/7 represents the “First Light” of a TEC140ED APO oil spaced triplet refractor. It is four hours of exposure in the narrowband. The image is a modified HST Palette using a process outlined by Bob Franke.

Photographer

Sylvain Reuzé

Location

Saint-Marceau (72), France

Date

August 30th

Equipment

Telescope: Celestron C8 orange with Kendrick dew remover Focuser: Moonlite CS2 with JMI motor Mount: Atlas EQ-G Goto modified "Pierro-astro" Camera: Canon EOS 40D (5 hours exposure) Guiding: PL1M (QHY5) on Televue Pronto, with Takahashi TGM2 mount Softwares: EQMod and Astrojan Tools for EOS with ASCOM protocol; PHDGuiding for autoguiding (pulse guide) Post-processing: IRIS, Adobe Photoshop CS5

Description

The Dumbell Nebula without any filter, just in real colours with a digital camera.

Photographer

Joao Vieira

E-mail

capaleve@gmail.com

Location

Torres Novas, Portugal

Date

August-September 2011

Equipment

William Optics Zenithstar 110 telescope with an Atik 314L+ camera through Astronomik narrowband filters. Losmandy G11 Gemini mount

Description

NGC 6960 supernova remnant in Cygnus. 10 hours exposure through Halpha, SII and OIII filters.

Photographer

Paul Winn

E-mail

strg8zn@astrolights.net

Location

Mount Pinos, Calif

Date

July 7th 2011

Equipment

Orion Atlas Mount w/EQMOD, Astro-Tech 90mm ED Triplet, William Optics 70mm Guidescope, Orion SS Autoguider. 12x10min exposures Captured with MaxIm, Stacked with Deepsky Stacker, Processed in Photoshop CS5 - Levels & Curves a couple of times. Then GradientXTerminator, Color BIAS Adjustments, Color Adjustments. Then Some Color Boosting & Contrast Layers. Then finished it off with Astronomy Tools -Deepsky Noise Reduction & Space Noise Reduction. The Final work was Screen & Softlight Layer Masks to bring out the dust lanes.

Description

The Great Andromeda Galaxy M31