Photographer

Lee Buck

Location

Northern AZ

Date

Jan. 12, 13, 14, 2013

Equipment

Scope: TEC160FL @ f/7 Camera: STL-11000M with Astrodon LRGB filters (Gen II) Mount: AP900 Lum: 18x15m(1x1); RGB: 23x10m each(2x2). (total 16h) Processed with CCDStack2+ and Photoshop CS3

Description

NGC2068 (aka M78) Reflection Nebula in Orion accompanied by NGC 2071. Just right of M78 is variable McNeil’s Nebula.

Photographer

steve coates

E-mail

stevencoates_pa@cox.net

Location

Ocala, Florida

Date

Imaged December 19, 2012, January 9 and January 10, 2013

Equipment

Orion 80mm EON Orion 50mm guide scope with SSAG QSI 683ws Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II 7nm Baader Ha filter

Description

IC 405 the Flaming Star nebula is an emission and a reflection nebula located in the constellation of Auriga about 1,500 light years away. The central blue region is from light reflecting off of dust granules from the nearby star AE Auriga. Imaged December 19, 2012, January 9 and January 10, 2013 from Ocala, Florida. RGB data: 6 minute exposure (each channel) stacked in DSS for a total of 3 hours Ha data: 15minute exposure stacked in DSS for a total of 4 hours.

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN, USA

Date

November 25, December 11, 12 & 13, 2012

Equipment

Telescope: Celestron 8” EdgeHD @ f/10 Accessories: Dew control by Dew Buster Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2 Camera: QSI583wsg CCD @ -10.0C Guiding: Starlight Xpress Lodestar via PHD Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha, OIII, SII Exposure: 8 x 30min.(Ha); 8 x 30min.(OIII); 8 x 30min.(SII); all frames binned 1x1 Acquisition: ImagesPlus Camera Control v5.0 Processing: Calibration, DDP in ImagesPlus 5.0; Registration in RegiStar Post-processing: ImagesPlus 5.0; Adobe Photoshop CS5; Gradient Xterminator, Noise Ninja

Description

The Crab Nebula is a supernova remnant that has an apparent magnitude of 8.4 and lies about 6,500 light-years away in the constellation Taurus. Corresponding to a bright supernova recorded by Arab, Chinese and Japanese astronomers in 1054, this nebula was observed by John Bevis in 1731 and was recorded as the first Messier object catalogued in 1758. Some catalogue designations for the Crab Nebula are M1 (Messier 1), NGC 1952, Taurus A, Sharpless 244 (Sh2-244) and LBN 833.

Photographer

Bader Al Ameera

E-mail

baderx2002@yahoo.com

Location

al-salmy desert north kuwait

Date

1: 40 AM -28-11-2011

Equipment

lense 300 mm f 2.8 canone camera 10d canon mod 2X18 with lxd75 mead mount.

Description

The picture was taken in the Kuwait desert

Photographer

Howard Trottier

E-mail

trottier@sfu.ca

Location

Rural British Columbia, Canada

Date

Between August 15 and October 7 2012

Equipment

Telescope: PlaneWave Instruments CDK17. Camera: Apogee U16M with FW50 10-position filter wheel. Mount: Paramount ME. Total exposure: 12.5 hours: L=350 minutes (1X1), R=130m, G=110m, B=160m (all 2x2), Subs=10m. Filters: Astrodon LRGB E-Series. Image capture: ACP, TheSkyX, MaxIm DL and Focusmax. Image processing: PixInsight and CCDInspector.

Description

This field of view in Cepheus features a beautiful pairing of the reflection nebula NGC7129, and the star cluster NGC7142 in the bottom left corner. The uploaded image is downsampled X4: the full resolution version is available at the listed Web Address. Now, this will be a bit of a stretch (astro-imager pun intended!), but could the reflection nebula be seen as the King's Crown, and the rich star field as the Crown Jewels ;)?

Photographer

steve coates

E-mail

stevencoates_pa@cox.net

Location

Ocala, Florida

Date

Imaged December 29 and 31, 2011, January 6, 2012. Ha data collected on December 22, 2012

Equipment

Orion 80mm EON Orion 50mm guide scope with SSAG Canon T1i QSI 683ws Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II 7nm Baader Ha filter Hutech IDAS Light Pollution Suppression (LPS) Filter

Description

Rosette nebula (aka NGC 2237, NGC 2238, NGC 2239, NGC 2244, NGC 2246) Ocala, FL Constellation: Monoceros 5,200 light years distant Emission nebulas are areas of star formation. The red glow is from ionized Hydrogen atoms that have become excited from the surrounding "new-born" stars. The dark areas are bands of dense dust.

Photographer

steve coates

E-mail

stevencoates_pa@cox.net

Location

Ocala, Florida

Date

Imaged December 4, 6,7 and 18, 2012

Equipment

Orion 80mm EON (FL 480mm) Orion 50mm guide scope with SSAG QSI 683 ws Losmandy G-11 with Gemini II Astrodon Tru-balance E-Series Generation II LRGB filters Baader 7 nm Ha filter

Description

IC 410 an emission nebula about 12,000 light-years from Earth in the constellation Auriga. Imaged December 4, 6,7 and 18, 2012 from Ocala, Florida RGB: 1 hour 18 min Red, 1 hour Green and 1 hour Blue (binned 1x1) Ha: 5hour 15 min (binned 1x1) Emission nebulas are areas of star formation. The red glow is from ionized Hydrogen atoms that have become excited from the surrounding "new-born" stars. The dark areas are bands of dense dust.

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

October 30 - December 4, 2012

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO HA: 19x30 minutes (binned 1x1) SII: 20x30 minutes (binned 1x1) OIII: 16x30 minutes (binned 1x1)

Description

This is a narrowband image of NGC896. This is an emission nebula about 7500 light years away in the constellation Cassiopeia. This image was done using the Hubble palette.

Photographer

Marco Angelini

E-mail

info@astrobrallo.com

Location

Parco astronomico Astrobrallo

Date

december 2012

Equipment

RC-14” F/8,4 SBIG STX 16803 LRGB Filters Baader LRGB Mount: Gemini Telescope Design - MOFOD Fork Mount L-R:G:B 720-180:120:120 (minutes) SQM: 21.2-21.8 (to be confirmed) Seeing: 1-8"-2.5" Authors: Acquisition: F. Antonucci - M. Angelini - F. Tagliani Image Processing: Francesco Antonucci

Description

M82 and the sourroundings IFN in Ursa Majore LRGB composition of a rich field in Ursa Majore of about 50'x50' centered on the galaxy M82 and showing the faint IFN (Integrated Flux Nebula) and several small galaxies and galaxy xlusters.

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

September 16 - December 10, 2012

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 18x20 minutes (binned 1x1) Red: 8x15 minutes (binned 2x2) Green: 8x15 minutes (binned 2x2) Blue: 8x15 minutes (binned 2x2)

Description

This is an image of NGC247. It is a spiral galaxy about 11 Million light years away in the constellation of Cetus. It is part of the Sculptor group of galaxies, which includes NGC253. You can notice many of the background galaxies in the upper and lower right of the image.