Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

February 5 & 6, and March 1, 2009

Equipment

Orion 80ED (f/7.5) Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided Canon 350D (self-modified) w/2" Baader UV/IR cutoff filter 80 x 180s @ ISO 1600

Description

These three galaxies form the Leo Trio. NGC3628 is the larger & fainter of the 3, with a very apparent dust lane through the center. This image was taken over three nights, February 5 & 6, and March 1, 2009. It is a total of 4 hours exposure time. The temperatures were 32° F, 49° F & 30° F, respectively.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 15, 2009

Equipment

NGC 2903 in Leo Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 Astro-Physics Mach1GTO Mount

Description

NGC 2903 in Leo, Canon 350D, 69x180sec at iso 1600,30 Darks/Flats/Bias, Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63, 60% Crop. NGC 2903 is a barred spiral galaxy about 20.5 million light years away in the constellation Leo. It was discovered by William Herschel who cataloged it as on November 16, 1784. NGC 2905 is a bright star cloud within this galaxy. The bright yellow center of NGC 2903 is undergoing very active star formation and contains massive amounts of dust and gas that are coagulating into stars and new globular clusters, while the arms are composed of older stars and aging clusters. It is believed that the gravity of the dense central bar expedites star formation in the core. The core resembles a Seyfert galaxy, but at a lower magnitude. This galaxy is just smaller than the Milky Way at about 100,000 light years across. One of the brighter galaxies in the northern hemisphere, most agree that it is remarkable that Messier missed this object in his observations.

Photographer

Bashar Markabawi

E-mail

markabawi@yahoo.com

Location

United States

Date

Dec 7, 2008

Equipment

Telescope 80mm WO doublet at F4.8. EOS canon modified. EQ 3 unguided. thirty exposures of 30" each stacked with DeepSky Stacker.

Description

Andromeda Galaxy and satellite galaxies.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 30, 2009

Equipment

SBIG ST-4000XCM APM/TMB 130/780 Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M106 in Canes Venatici - 24x600sec, Imager Temp -20C. M106 (NGC 4258) is a Seyfert II galaxy in Canes Venatici. It lies at a distance of 22 to 25 million light years from earth and is receding at 537 km/sec. NGC 4217 is the bright edge-on spiral in the lower right of the frame, and may be a companion of M106. NGC 4248 is the small galaxy just to the upper right of M106.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 30, 2009

Equipment

SBIG ST-4000XCM APM/TMB 130/780 Mach1GTO Mount

Description

SBIG ST-4000XCM, 18x600sec, Imager Temp -20C APM/TMB 130/780, Severe Crop (~200%) Abell 39 (PK47+42.1), a member of George Abell's Catalog of Planetery Nebulae is a low surface brightness planetary nebula in the constellation Hercules. The most sperical planetary nebula, it is almost a perfect sphere - also one of the largest known spheres with a radius of about 2.5 light-years.

Photographer

James Maxwell

E-mail

jlmaxwell@starband.net

Location

Caldera Rim Observatory

Date

Jan. 3, 2009, 1:26-2:24AM

Equipment

10" F/4 Schmidt Newtonian (Meade) with Baader Coma Corrector. 5" Guidescope with autoguider. Losmany G-11 Mount. Color Astro 400D (Canon Rebel)cooled DSLR. Photograph taken at Minus 8C and at 8300 ft. elevation. Dark and Flat frames applied. Processed in Nebulosity and Photobrush.

Description

Region of M42, Theta Orionis, and Iota Orionis. Unfiltered exposure totaling 33 minutes (22 x 90 second frames).

Photographer

charles lillo

E-mail

clillo@bellsouth.net

Location

Everglades National Park, Florida

Date

March 20th 2009

Equipment

Canon XT DSLR, Atlas EQ-G, Orion ED-80

Description

This was a aprox 40 minute exposure of orion using 6 minutes sube along with 6 20 seconds subs for the core. What makes this photo so interesting to me is all the dust is this great nebulae.

Photographer

Paul Daniell

Location

Tornado, WV

Date

June 2008 - March 2009

Equipment

Mount Atlas EQ-G. Camera Canon Rebel IR Modified for all images except M1 and M94 (Starshoot DSI 1 for these 2). Telescope was Orion ED80 for all widefield images and 11" Orion SCT was used for close ups. Guiding with PHD from Stark-Labs, Images acquired and processed with Nebulosity. Post processing with Photoshop Elelments 4. Exposure times from a few minutes to several hours.

Description

Imaged all 110 Messier Objects from my driveway. Image attached is Messier 1-50. Messier 51-110 also availible and will be submitted seperately.

Photographer

Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo

E-mail

fmcastelluzzo@hotmail.com

Location

Frasso Sabino (Italy)

Date

December/January2009

Equipment

Newton Skywatcher 10 inch,Eq6 pro, Canon 350D autoguide magz on 70/900mm refractor

Description

M81 is a very nice and a target for astroimagers. But the flux nebula presents in the field is a very difficoult target to achieve. In particula is difficoult for a dlsr camera. I try to take it using a quite long exposure in not very clear sky. Anyway I did it in 8 hours total exposures and stretching in processing

Photographer

Ted Rafferty/Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, OH/Baltimore MD

Date

10-28 and 11-23-2008

Equipment

Modified 350D and C9.25 on AP Mach1 (Color) DSI Pro 2 and Meade SN8 on LXD75 (Hydrogen Alpha)

Description

Collaboration of DSLR color and CCD Ha data to produce an image that uses the best of both. The two sets of data were registered and aligned in DeepSkyStacker and combined in Photoshop CS3. The combine method used is one described by Russell Croman. Layer masks were used to keep star colors true while allowing the Ha and RGB to combine in a way to optimize the nebula's appearance.