Photographer

bruce karbal

Location

Chicago, Illinois

Date

December 9, 2006 7PM CST

Equipment

Pentax 125 SDP at F 6.4 prime focus imaging with Finger Lakes Instrument Proline 16803, Finger Lakes Instrument CFW 4-5 50mm square filter wheel with Astrodon 50 mm square 6nm HA filter,Pentax 75 SDHF guide scope using SBIG ST 7xeall riding atop an A/P 900 gto mount

Description

This shot illustrates the tremendous field of view the new big chip cameras offer ! With my Pentax 125 SDP, that provides an amazing flat field at F 6.4...the field of view is 158 arc minutes x 158 arc minutes...literally 3 degrees square !!! from a 5" refractor. Additionally, this was taken at a forrest preserve less than 10 miles North of Downtown Chicago, showing just how powerfull, H-Alpha imaging can be, even from light polluted skies ! The image was 90 minutes long consisting of 3 frames of 30 minutes each. The original FITS file of this image is 64 MEG !!!

Photographer

Kelvin Phoon

Location

San Diego, CA

Date

October 11, 2006

Equipment

Celestron 80ED refractor at f/3.8, Meade DSI Pro II CCD camera, Schuler Hydrogen alpha, OIII, and SII filters, Meade LX90 guided mount.

Description

NGC7380 is an open cluster in the star-forming diffuse nebula Sh2-142. Located in the constellation Cepheus, the nebula is estimated to be 7,200 light years from earth. Sulphur II, hydrogen-alpha, and oxygen III filters mapped to Red, Green, and Blue channels (Hubble palette). 4 hours total exposure.

Photographer

Frank R Uroda

Location

Jeddo, MI

Date

November 20, 2006

Equipment

Equipment list: C-11 scope Older G-11 mount (totally rebuilt and tuned by me) with FS2 goto and ESCAP steppers TCF-s focuser Optec 0.5 reducer ST2000XM with 2020 imaging chip and 237 guide chip CFW8 with A-Don LRGB I series and 13nm Astronimik Ha All housed within my Black River Observatory near Port Huron, Michigan

Description

This is my rendition of M-81, also know as Bode's Nebula. I spent 3 nights collecting data for this image during a week-long clear spell. This is a beautiful and relatively close spiral galaxy. Look closely and you can see that something has disrupted one of the spiral arms. It appears that the arm is lifted away from the galactic plane. Perhaps it was an interaction with it's neighbor, M-82?

Photographer

George Lilley

Location

K9 Observatory Warner Robins, GA

Date

December 18, 2006

Equipment

Williams Optics ZS80, Losmandy G11 mount, Orion SkyGlow Filter, Canon Rebel XT. Processed in Image Plus and Photo Shop 7. Three hours of images over several nights combined in Image Plus.

Description

M31, is now high overhead and is great for imaging if you have to deal with light polluted skies - K9 Observatory is within a quarter mile of a Homed Depot, a Lowes and my favorite, a Super Walmart. The Sky Glow filter is a life saver, although it takes me 3-times as long to collect enough data, without it I doubt deep sky imagining would be possiable for me. Cheers from K9 George

Photographer

George Lilley

Location

K9 Observatory Warner Robins, GA

Date

December 18, 2006

Equipment

Williams Optics ZS80, Losmandy G11 mount, Orion SkyGlow Filter, Canon Rebel XT. Processed in Image Plus and PhotoShop 7. Three hours of images over several nights combined in Image Plus.

Description

M31, is now high overhead and is great for imaging if you have to deal with light polluted skies - K9 Observatory is within a quarter mile of a Homed Depot, a Lowes and my favorite, a Super Walmart. The Sky Glow filter is a life saver, although it takes me 3-times as long to collect enough data, without it I doubt deep sky imagining would be possiable for me. Cheers from K9 George

Photographer

Eric Jacob

Location

Sanat Barbara CA

Date

November 15, 2006

Equipment

Celestron 102mm WideView refractor, Chinese clone CG5 mount, Canon EOS 10D camera, prime focus (500mm, f/5). ISO 200.

Description

Four exposures of four minutes each were stacked and processed in Photoshop to reveal the nebula's subtle details. The Trapezium is a separate 1-minute exposure.

Photographer

Pierre

Location

Quebec, Canada

Date

July 30th 2005 and september 17th 2006

Equipment

Takahashi Sky 90 refractor with focal reducer, Starlight Express SXV-H9 CCD camera with SBIG CFW8A filter wheel and Astrodon LRGB filters. Exposures : 23 X 200 sec for initial luminance RGB : 8 X 6.5 minutes

Description

IC 5146, known as the Cocoon nebula. A recent luminance taken in New Mexico (12 X 180 sec.,ST-8XE and Takahashi Epsilon 250 ) has been added in order to get better details of the nebular structure. LRGB composite

Photographer

Bill Griswold

Location

Robbins, NC

Date

Oct 20, 2006 8:30PM

Equipment

Canon 300D IR Modified digital SLR camera, Celestron C8-ASGT Schmidt-Cassegrain telescope.

Description

Bubble Nebula located just northwest of the "W" in Cassiopiea.

Photographer

Enrico Africa

Location

West Chester, OH

Date

Aug 4 - Sep 15, 2006

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ-106 refractor on a Takahashi EM200 Temma-2 Mount, SBIG STL-6303 CCD camera Astrodon H-alpha, S-II, O-III filters

Description

This is a narrow-band e-liine mapped color of IC 1805 in Cassiopeia. The colors were mapped according to the Hubble Palette (SII=Red, H-alpha=Green, OIII=Blue) Total exposure time: 13.5 hours (4.5 H-alpha, 4 SII, 5 OIII)

Photographer

Peter W. O'Brien

Location

Derry, NH

Date

09/06

Equipment

DSI Pro II behind modified 150mm refractor/cat optics ~@f1.8 piggybacked on 10"LX200

Description

This is a 3 panel mosaic shot such as the galaxy appears horizontal in the image. Each panel was takaen with a 2min intergration time for LRGB . The dynamic range of the camera allowed for processing both for the central nucleus and the outter arms. Combined in Photo Shop