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Photographer

Stefano De Rosa

E-mail

stefanoderosa66@gmail.com

Location

Monate Lake (Italy)

Date

October 16, 2009 at 6:48 a.m.

Equipment

Canon Eos 1000d;Exp: 10 sec; F/5; 400 ISO

Description

The lovely celestial scene shows an old Moon (with its earthshine) forming a triangle with Saturn and the bright Venus, all of them reflecting their light on the calm water of the lake. Below on the left of the "triangle", Mercury is emerging from twilight to complete the predawn conjunction.
 

Photographer

sadegh ghomizadeh

E-mail

info@astro-persia.com

Location

iran tehran

Date

7 Oct Time 00.33 UTC

Equipment

Celestron C11 + DMK21AU04.AS

Description

polar hood is still very large the Sky was very good atmosphere & seeing
 

Photographer

Nabarun Sadhya

E-mail

nabarun@cal.uniworth.com

Location

Kolkata, India

Date

19.10.08 21:25 IST

Equipment

Sony Cybershot H50 digital camera

Description

When Moon seen very close to the horizon, the long sight-line through the atmosphere, filters and reddens the moonlight.
 

Photographer

Jean-Christophe Meriaux

E-mail

jmeriaux@gmail.com

Location

San Bruno, CA

Date

8/9/2009 - 11.43pm PDT

Equipment

Telescope: Orion Maksutov Cassegrain 7″ with Atlas Mount CCD Camera Imaging Source DKF 21AU04.AS with RGB color wheel

Description

Picture at Focal Plane F/D 15. All pictures are processed with Registax, Maxim DSLR, and Paintshop Pro Seeing 3-4 / 10 on ALPO scale- Stack of 539 R / 349 G / 763 B frames
 

Photographer

John W. O'Neal, II

E-mail

johnoneal@onealwebsite.com

Location

High Meadows Reservation, Elyria, Ohio

Date

09/13/2009 @ 14:00 EST

Equipment

Meade Hydrogen Alpha filter on an Orion 127mm Refractor, mounted on a Celestron ascg5-goto mount

Description

We set up our scopes at High Meadows Metroparks Reservation to show the public the Sun and were surprised to find several prominences visible.
 

Photographer

Nabarun Sadhya

E-mail

nabarunsadhya@gmail.com

Location

Kolkata, India

Date

12 September 2009 14:12 UTC

Equipment

Sony Cybershot H50 digital camera only.

Description

Jupiter and its four Galilean moons, Europa and Io on left and Callisto and Ganymede on right.
 

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Looking Glass Observatory, Buena Vista, GA

Date

05:41:29 UT, 8-19-09

Equipment

C14@f/31 on AP1200 Lumenera SkyNyx 2-0 monochrome camera

Description

This image shows that impact debris is still visible 30 days after impact!
 

Photographer

Rolando Chavez

E-mail

rolochavez@comcast.net

Location

Powder Springs, GA

Date

09 August 2009 3:01am

Equipment

Celestron C-14, Celestron CGE Mount, DMK 21 AF04 Camera.

Description

Jupiter showing the GRS, Callisto, Europa and the Impact site at upper right hand.
 

Photographer

James Maxwell

E-mail

jlmaxwell@jm-astro.com

Location

Caldera Rim Observatory

Date

Aug. 19, 2009, 9:26-11:20PM

Equipment

Meade 10" F/4 Schmidt Newtonian, on Losmandy G-11 Mount. Cooled Canon (Astro) 400D at 4.5C, acquired with Nebulosity Software. Autoguiding using 5-inch refractor with Orion Deep Space Imager and PhD guiding. Post-processing with Nebulosity and Photobrush.

Description

Comet Christensen C/2006 W3, tracking the comet. This was taken in a Rich Milky Way Field within Sagitta on Aug. 19, 2009 between 9:26-11:20PM MST. A total of 1 Hour and 27 minutes from 90 second exposures. Photo was taken at 8300 ft. elevation at the Caldera Rim Observatory near Jemez Springs, NM, USA. Higher resolution photo available.
 

Photographer

Mike Hood

E-mail

MHVega@aol.com

Location

Kathleen, Georgia, USA

Date

708 UT August 9, 2009

Equipment

A TEC 200 at F-32 with a color SkyNyx camera on an AP 1200 Mount.

Description

The impact under high contrast appears to have broken into four dark spots with two spots close side by side.
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