Photographer

Jean-Denis Douvier

Location

Doughton Park, NC

Date

03/03/2008 2am

Equipment

Celestron 9.25 focal reducer f/6.3 F=1480mm Losmandy G-11 Canon 20Da ISO 1600 Phillips ToUCam, FS60C, PHD Guiding

Description

The Sunflower galaxy M63 with all its smaller neighboring galaxies.

Photographer

Robert Walls

Location

Toney,AL

Date

Jan and Feb 2008

Equipment

Starlight SXV-H9 camera, Astronomik LRGB filters in a FLI CFW through an Orion 80ED with a Televue 0.8X reducer/flattener, guided with the SXV guidehead through a Stellarvue AT1010 all on a pier mounted CGE.

Description

This photo focuses on the reflection nebula IC2169 (IC447) and dark nebula LDN1600 in Monoceros. The smaller reflection nebula IC2167 (IC446), and nearby larger dark nebula LDN1601 are to the left of IC2169.

Photographer

Ivette Rodríguez and Oriol Lehmkuhl

Location

Montseny, Barcelona

Date

January 16, 26 and 27 2008

Equipment

Lens: Megrez 72 APO + FF 0.8x F/stop: 4.8 Mount: Vixen Sphinx Deluxe Camera: Artemis 4021 Guiding: Throught WO 66 f5.9 with Meade DSI and PhD guiding software

Description

The Rosette is a prominent star formation region, glowing due to ultraviolet light from the young, hot, blue stars whose winds also cleared the central hole. Exposure: Ha baader filter, 11 x 15 min; SII, 6x20 min and OIII 9x15min (unbinned) Calibrated and aligned with ImagesPlus, stacked with MaximDL and postprocessed with PixInsight STD

Photographer

Gordon Haynes

E-mail

gphaynes2006@o2.co.uk

Location

Hereford UK

Date

February 22nd 2008 10pm

Equipment

TMB 115 f7, Starlight Xpress SXVF H36,Paramount ME, 15 x 10 minute exposures unguided with a 12nm Ha filter

Description

The image shows the whole of the Rosette nebula in Ha which has helped bring out some of the detail, there was a full moon in the sky close to the area of sky where I was imaging and the brightness of the moon was so great that from where I live you couldn't see all of the stars in orion due to the moon light. I had originally planned on 20 x 10 minute unguided subs but cloud came in and ruined the remainder of the session.

Photographer

Peter W. O'Brien

E-mail

pobrien@ll.mit.edu

Location

Derry NH USA

Date

02/24/08

Equipment

DSI Pro II behind 10" LX200R @ f10

Description

After years of trying to capture and blend with hours of luminance data, the wispy H-alpha filamentary structure flaring out orthogonally from the distorted disk of this enigmatic object, as if to compete with Hubble and others in their amazing images, I decided to abandon the layering and masking and blurring then masking and multiplying and dynamic range masking and stacking and yada yada yada, in favor of a natural look. Some may say that M82 is no beauty contest winner in the Universe pageant but I marvel at her so.

Photographer

dietmar hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

35 km north of linz, austria

Date

08-02-10

Equipment

9" TMB f/9 SXVF H16 CCD astronomik 2" filterset FLI wheel

Description

Date: 10.2.2008- seeing 6-(8)/10; transp. 6-7/10 Scope: 9" TMB Apo f/9 CCD: SXV H16 L: 15x9 min; R,G,B 2x2 bin 7x9 min Software: AstroArt4 image acqu. guiding, preprocessing: Maxim DL; Registax; CCD sharp Processing: postprocess. PS CS2 and Pix InSight LE www.stargazer-observatory.com

Photographer

didier pean

Location

Nantes France

Date

2008/02/09 22:00

Equipment

LX200 GPS 254mm f/6.3 Nikon D300 DSLR altazimutal mount total exposure 150 sec

Description

M42 an exemple of city astrophotography with the new D300 Nikon dslr (no dark, no flat)

Photographer

Tunç Tezel

E-mail

canopia@yahoo.com

Location

near Bolu, Turkey

Date

3rd December 2007

Equipment

For the main shot showing both objects, I used a 100-400 mm lens at 400 mm f/8, with a Canon EOS 5D camera at ISO 1600 and an exposure of 4 minutes, piggybacked on a Meade 8" LX10 SCT. Then I composed two pictures of both objects separately taken with the 8" SCT. For NGC253, it was an exposure of 1 hour at ISO 800. For NGC288, it was a shorter 10-minute exposure at ISO 1600.

Description

NGC253 is a bright, large spiral galaxy lying about in the faint constellation Sculptor. It is the brightest galaxy in the Sculptor with the magnitude of 7.1; with the distance of 10 million light years. NGC288, on the other hand, lies only 27000 light years away, in the halo of Milky Way. It is a magnitude fainter than NGC253: 8.1. The pair is separated 1 3/4 degrees of sky. They are visible in the same binocular field (about as wide as this picture) but most telescopes are not able to fit them in the same field. South Galactic Pole (SGP) lies less than a degree soutwest of NGC288, close to the lower right corner of this picture.

Photographer

Marcelo Daniel Cerdán

E-mail

mdcerdan@yahoo.com.ar

Location

Mendoza, Argentina

Date

1/13/2007 02:48 GMT

Equipment

Telescope: Orion ED80 on Skywatcher EQ5 Synscan mount Camera: Canon 350D

Description

This huge cloud of dust dominates the far south sky as seen from a remote mountain site in Mendoza, Argentina. It is crossed by several dark lanes composed of obscure material and giving the nebula its beautiful appearance. Is no doubt that Eta Carinae Nebula is one of the finest telescopic objects visible from the south hemisphere.

Photographer

Jim Lafferty

E-mail

shogun000@netzero.com

Location

Redlands, Ca

Date

Jan 12-15, 2008

Equipment

FSQ106N refractor, SBIG ST2000xm camera, Takahashi NJP mount

Description

IC 443, the Jellyfish Nebula, a galactic supernova remnat approx 5,000 light years distant, in the constellation Gemini. Imaged over 4 nights on Jan 12-13-14-15, 2008. Imaged with FSQ106N and ST2000xm (Astrodon Filters) riding on the Takahashi NJP. 200 minutes of Ha was used for the luminance, 100 mins of SII for the red channel, 200 min of Ha for the green channel, and 100 mins OIII used for the blue channel (all unbinned, 20 min subs).