Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rnacho Hidalgo, NM

Date

June 3 and 5, 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

Here is a picture of M63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The Sunflower Galaxy is about 37 million light years away and has a diameter of 100,000 light years, about the same as our Milky Way galaxy.

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

May 28 - June 1, 2011

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 15x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutes

Description

Here is a picture of M64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy and the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy about 20 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is about 45,000 light years in diameter, and the inner part of the galaxy (about 3000 light years in diameter) is rotating in the opposite direction from the outer part of the galaxy (about 40,000 light years in diameter).

Photographer

Niels V. Christensen

E-mail

nvcchr@mail.dk

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

Jan-2011

Equipment

WO FLT-110 and Canon 20Da. LX200ACF 16" and SBIG ST-8XME.

Description

Reprocessed picture of M1, a 150% size cropped widefield picture. First submission was this one, http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/M1_Center-crop_new_NC-LCEnh-MSS_USM-crop-frame_web.jpg

Photographer

Lynn Hilborn

E-mail

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca

Location

Grafton,Ontario

Date

July 1,3,5,2011

Equipment

TEC 140 @f7 and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters. Mount is a Tak NJP with Temma2.

Description

Young star forming region and reflection nebula contrasted against dust clouds of the Milky Way. Also seen are small compact emission clouds (Herbig-Haro objects) commonly seen in star forming regions.

Photographer

Thomas Nelson

Location

Duluth, MN USA

Date

August 12, 2010 2:30 AM CDT

Equipment

AP 130 EDFGT with AP Field Flattener, LPS Filter, f/6.3 Astrohutech modified Canon 50D, ISO 800, 29 x 3min Losmandy G11, guided with Orion SSAG, 50mm f/5 guidescope Processed with IP v3.80, CS4, Neat Image

Description

One of the finest planetary nebulae in the sky!

Photographer

robert fields

E-mail

robertfields@yahoo.com

Location

United States

Date

Summer 2011

Equipment

Epsilon 180/STL 4020

Description

HaLRGB

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

07/06/2011, 02:12ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, F6.3, ST2000xm Ccd, AO8, CFW9, Astronomik Ha,L,R,G,B filterset.

Description

This image of the Prawn Nebula only shows part (high mag.) of this massive emission nebula located in the tail end of Scorpius.

Photographer

Rod Pommier

E-mail

pommierr@ohsu.edu

Location

Pommier Observatory, Portland, OR, USA

Date

2011-06-04 to 2011-06-20

Equipment

Telescope/mount: Celestron Compustar C14 with 0.75x focal reducer (f/8). Camera: SBIG STL 11000M with Baader Planetarium filters. Exposures: LRGB=152:48:48:52=5:00hours total exposure. Self-guided.

Description

M63 is a class Sb spiral galaxy. Unlike grand design Sb galaxies with 2 spiral arms, M63 is of the rarer "flocculent" design with arms that cannot be traced. This design is characterized by a sharp drop off in brightness between core and arms, making it difficult for imagers to portray both regions simultaneously. The sigmoid whisp below the bright star at upper right is irregular galaxy UGCA 342 which may be a satellite analagous to one of our Magellanic clouds. Numerous faint background galaxies are visible, including an edge-on spiral which is reddened by M63's intervening dust.

Photographer

Ian Gorenstein

E-mail

laperuz@mail15.com

Location

Cherry Springs Park, PA

Date

07/05/11

Equipment

Celestron NS11/Hyperstar 3 at f/2, QHY10 CCD. And NO light pollution!

Description

This picture is taken in Cherry Springs Park in rural PA on 04/07. I love Pinwheel, it is large (twice as our own Galaxy!) and somewhat challenging to image. Exposure time - 115min. See my other image for identification of the brighter regions.

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN, USA

Date

June 30, July 2 & 9, 2011

Equipment

Telescope: Stellarvue Raptor SVR105 @ f/7 Accessories: Stellarvue SFF7-21 flattener; Dew control by Dew Buster Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G controlled by EQMOD performance tuned by Astrotroniks Camera: QSI583wsg CCD @ -10.0C Guiding: Starlight Xpress Lodestar via PHD Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OIII, SII Exposure: 12 x 20min. OIII & SII, 11 x 20min. Ha Acquisition: ImagesPlus 4.0c Camera Control Processing: Calibration, DDP in Images Plus v4.0; Registration in Registar Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5; Hubble palette R=SII, G=Ha, B=OIII Date(s): June 30, 2011, July 2, 2011 & July 9, 2011 SQM reading (begin - end): N1:19.21-19.20; N2:19.00-clouds; N3:18.84-19.14 Temperature (begin - end): N1:76.8ºF-68.5ºF; N2:78.8ºF-73.8Fº; N3:78.3ºF-71.6Fº

Description

This image of NGC 6992 - The Eastern Veil is our first image that we've processed using the HST palette. We used the standard mapping of SII = red, H-alpha = green, & OIII = blue. We just tried to have fun with it and adjusted the colors to what looked "pretty" to our eyes.