Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN, USA

Date

June 30, 2011 & July 2, 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 Exposure: 12 x 20min. OIII, 11 x 20min. Ha Acquisition: ImagesPlus 4.0c Camera Control Processing: Calibration, DDP in Images Plus v4.0 Post-processing: Adobe Photoshop CS5 using Steve Cannistra’s bi-color combination technique Date(s): June 30, 2011 & July 2, 2011 SQM reading (begin - end): N1:19.21-19.20; N2:19.00-clouds Temperature (begin - end): N1:76.8ºF-68.5ºF; N2:78.8ºF-73.8Fº

Description

Found in the constellation Cygnus, the Eastern Veil Nebula supernova remnant, also known as Caldwell 33, is comprised of three portions. The brighter portion, NGC 6992, connects with NGC 6995 and IC1340 and is displayed here in "bi-color" representation. Narrowband filters were used to isolate the H-alpha and OIII emissions and reveal the structure of the nebula. Discovered in 1784 by William Herschel, The Veil complex (or Cygnus Loop) appears dim since it is spread over a large area. The source supernova violently exploded some 5,000 - 8,000 years ago leaving only these expanding filaments behind.

Photographer

Joao Vieira

E-mail

capaleve@gmail.com

Location

Torres Novas, Portugal

Date

June 2011

Equipment

William Optics Zenithstar 110 Atik 314L+, with Astronomik CLS and RGB filters. Losmandy G11 Gemini mount 14h for luminance and 10h for RGB

Description

NGC 5985 Galaxy trio in Draco. This is contrasty group formed by the spiral galaxy NGC 5985 with distinct arms, the elliptical NGC 5982 and the edge-on spiral NGC5981

Photographer

Samuele Gasparini

E-mail

sam.gasp@yahoo.it

Location

Casole d'Elsa (Italy)

Date

04.07.2011

Equipment

Refr. Williams Optics 120 Ed with Hotech flattener and Canon 1000d. Mount Skywatcher Eq6 . 7x6 min shots at 800 Iso. Guide equipement: Magzero M5 on Skywatcher 80ed. Samuele Gasparini. Web address: www.astrobook.it

Description

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.

Photographer

Paul Bambury

Location

Forks of the Credit Provincial Park

Date

June 30th 11:46pm

Equipment

Skywatcher 8inch Newtonian on HEQ5pro mount. Canon T2i for imaging, and QHY5 on finderscope for guiding with Phd.

Description

M8 - the lagoon nebula. While adding to my Messier list of imaged object I took some of M8. I decided to add a few more captures as the quality looked. I didn't imagine at the time it would come out so good.

Photographer

Giacomo Bartolacci

E-mail

giacomo9783@libero.it

Location

Casole d'Elsa (SI) - Italy

Date

25th June 2011

Equipment

modified EOS40D on Tecnosky 70/420 with reducer/flattener W.O. type III; 9x5 min shots at 800 ISO

Description

Cat Pawn Nebula and the nebula that somebody names "Crab" taken in a very dark night from tuscan countryside

Photographer

Franz Hofmann

E-mail

hofmannfranz@gmx.de

Location

Hannover, Germany

Date

5 March 2011

Equipment

Celestron C11 EdgeHD with Hyperstar 3, f=560mm, CGEM, Canon EOS 1000Da with CLS filter, 132x1min

Description

The Monkey Head from my balcony observatory in the suburban southern part of Hannover

Photographer

Matthew Reiche

E-mail

matthewreiche@gmail.com

Location

Jenny Jump State Park NJ

Date

April 5th 2011

Equipment

AT6RC with AT2FF and LPF Guided with SV80 Camera is Canon XSI Baader Modified Guided with homemade webcam Atlas mount controlled with EQMOD

Description

First light with my AT6RC. Captured with Backyard EOS, dithered via PHD guiding. Stacked with DSS, Processed with CS5 32 @ 5mins = 2hr 30min darks flats bias

Photographer

Scott B

E-mail

helterskelter19@hotmail.com

Location

Bancroft Ontario

Date

dec 19 2011 midnight

Equipment

Celestron C6-SGT Canon EOS 50D 1 min exposure

Description

"Ring Nebula" is located in the northern constellation of Lyra even a 6 inch with a bright moon can show enough detail

Photographer

Michael Deger

E-mail

m.deger@galaxyphoto.de

Location

30km nw from Munich/Germany

Date

13.07.2010

Equipment

optics: Meade 12" ACF, f = 3000mm mount: Vixen New Atlux camera: SBIG ST2000XM with SBIG LRGB - filters exposure times: L:R:G:B 12x5min: 4x5min: 4x5min: 4x5min ( L: 1x1, RGB: 2x2 )

Description

NGC6804 is a small planetary nebula in the constellation Aquila. The size of the nebula is about 1.1 x 0.8 arcminutes. The brightness of the central star is 14.4 mag.

Photographer

samuele gasparini

E-mail

sam.gasp@yahoo.it

Location

Casole d'Elsa (Si) ItLY

Date

26.06.2011 h. 01.15 AM

Equipment

Refr. Williams Optics 120 Ed with Hotech flattener and Canon 1000d. Mount Skywatcher Eq6 . 6x6 min shots at 800 Iso. Guide equipement: Magzero M5 on Skywatcher 80ed. Samuele Gasparini. Web address: www.astrobook.it

Description

M20 (Trifid nebula) wide located in an incredibly rich area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius