Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN, USA

Date

January 15, 2012 @ 9:39am CST

Equipment

Telescope: Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa/B1200CPT Accessories: LS50FHa Double-stack etalon; TeleVue 2.5x Powermate Mount: Takahashi EM-200 Temma2 Camera: Imaging Source DMK31 Exposure: 63ms Gain: 893 Length: 1:00 @ 15fps Acquisition: Fire Capture Processing: Registax 6 Post-processing: ImagesPlus 4.5; Adobe Photoshop CS5 Capture time: January 15, 2012, 9:39am Capture conditions: ~37.6°F; transparency: Average 3/5; seeing: Average 3/5 Location: Hendersonville, TN, USA

Description

Much activity was visible on the Sun on January 15, 2012. Here is an image showing some of the impressive prominences along the limb.

Photographer

John W. O'Neal, II

E-mail

johnoneal@onealwebsite.com

Location

The Good Night Observatory, Amherst, Ohio, USA

Date

January 7th, 2012

Equipment

Lunt Solar Systems LS60THa w/B1200 Blocking Filter. Canon 40D shooting avi @ prime focus Losmandy G-11 mounted in a Skyshed POD.

Description

We finally got a clear afternoon after a week of snowfall. Seeing was excellent and a series of prominences were arranged on the solar limb for our viewing pleasure. I shot 1500 frames for each half of the image, stacked in Registax 6 and processed the best 25%. Then I stitched the halves together and colorized in Adobe Photoshop CS5.1

Photographer

Will Davis

Location

Tucson, Arizona

Date

02:18 P.M. MST, 01-03-2012.

Equipment

Meade Saturn DS114EC newtonian reflector, fitted with an Orion 5.81" full aperture solar glass filter, and a Meade 40mm super plössl, taken with a Olympus C-750 UZ. 1/500 second, at f/3.5, ISO 50.

Description

My first solar observation to start 2012. Received the filter as a gift, and it has made solar observation a real fun hobby after using the projection method for some time before. The seeing was quite less than perfect, lots of wispy clouds all over the sky, (none in front of the Sun), and much haze was present as well, the camera managed to capture the actual color that the filter provides, even though it wasn't visible to the eye, due to the poor conditions.

Photographer

Jim Fakatselis

E-mail

jfakatselis@yahoo.com

Location

Huntington, NY

Date

12/31/2011 5:57 pm EST

Equipment

AP Traveler 105 mm Canon modified T1i AP 2X Barlow

Description

While observing the Moon on New Year's Eve just before 6pm EST, I was looking for the area of the Werner X. I noticed that I was possibly a day early but, I noticed this little mini-X very close to the crater Werner. Looks like a Werner X mini-me ! :) Is this something new? Has anyone ever seen this before?

Photographer

Kevin

E-mail

krwitman@gmail.com

Location

Cochranville, Pennsylvania

Date

12/26/2011 @ 8:06pm EST

Equipment

Meade LX50 10" SCT f/10 and a Canon XS DSLR. I utilized Images Plus software to stack 23 x 2second images.

Description

Living only one hour from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, I was able to capture three of Uranus's faint satellites. Using the SkyandTelescope Uranus moon app, I was able to positively identify them for the corresponding time and date.

Photographer

mehdi momenzadeh

E-mail

celestialviews2@gmail.com

Location

near khara desert, Iran

Date

2011,27,12

Equipment

canon EOS 500D with 18-55 IS on Tripod ISO 800, F/5.6, 1/3 Seconds Edited in PS CS5 and Lightroom

Description

The Man points to the sky as the sun is seting and Beautiful Dusk and moon & Venus Conjunction makes a Dreamy Scene.

Photographer

Mark Clegg

E-mail

Mark63clegg@aol.com

Location

Pittsboro, N.C.

Date

12-01-11, 9PM

Equipment

TEC 8" triplet refractor (f/9) AP1200 mount Vernonscope 2.4X Dakin barlow Imaging Source camera DFK 21AU04.AS Registax 5.0

Description

Jupiter on 12-01-2011 from N.C.

Photographer

Re, Pedro

E-mail

pedro.re@netcabo.pt

Location

PORTUGAL

Date

20111203 10:00UT

Equipment

LUNT LS152

Description

SUN (20111203) PROM. LUNT 152 F/6, BF3400, 2X Barlow, DMK41, stack of 250 images

Photographer

Mark Clegg

E-mail

Mark63clegg@aol.com

Location

Pittsboro, N.C.

Date

12-01-11, 9PM

Equipment

TEC 8" triplet refractor (f/9) AP1200 GTO mount Vernonscope 2.4X Dakin barlow Imaging Source camera DFK 21AU04.AS Registax 5.0

Description

Jupiter as seen from N.C. on 12-01-2011 in excellent seeing

Photographer

Brent Murray

Location

United States

Date

11-30-11: 6:30pm

Equipment

Orion 6" DOB (1200mm), Orion 3.6mm Eyepiece, Custom built Iphone to telescope connector, Almost DSLR app on iphone, Registax 5.1

Description

Jupiter's cloud belts with Io and Europa