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Photographer

Jimmy Eubanks

E-mail

laurel3@charter.net

Location

Boiling Springs, SC

Date

17:00 UT 10/17/2010

Equipment

Double Stacked Coronado PST @ f/20 TIS DMK21 Orion Atlas EQ-G

Description

This image is a mosaic of 9 frames displaying the Sun's Chromosphere in Hydrogen Alpha. Aside from the four unique active regions, the most notable feature is the 500,000 km long filament stretching across the top of the disk.
 

Photographer

Lee DeCovnick

Location

Walnut Creek, Ca

Date

October 18, 2010 20:16 PDT

Equipment

Vixen VC200L f/9 Prime Focus, Vixen Sphinx SWX, Nikon D70 1/230 sec. iPhoto editing with Preview with a 27" 2.8GHz Quad-Ccore iMac

Description

I'm developeing a collection of photographs that highlight striking lunar surface contrasts, (mares, rays, basins, craters) while harkening back to the famous Mt. Wilson lunar plates. During the next few months, I plan to use the same contrast "masks" on the usual (and unusual) lunar suspects.
 

Photographer

Bader Al Ameera

E-mail

baderx2002@yahoo.com

Location

al-salmy desert north kuwait

Date

11:30 AM 16-10-2010

Equipment

lense 300 mm f 2.8 canone camera 10d 3mX5 with lxd75 mead mount.
 

Photographer

Niels V. Christensen

E-mail

nvcchr@mail.dk

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

17. Oct. 2010

Equipment

LX200ACF 16" on wedge for guiding via SBIG ST-8XME camera. WO FLT-110 and Canon 20Da camera used for the Hartley subs.

Description

A comet Hartley composition picture. The background scene/picture consist of 4*5min. exposure subs.; combined via Adobe Photoshop with 8*5min. subs. which were tracked on the comet kernel and then median combined.
 

Photographer

John W. O'Neal, II

E-mail

johnoneal@onealwebsite.com

Location

Amherst, Ohio

Date

10/10/2010 05:48am EST

Equipment

Canon 40D w/55-300mm lens piggybacked on Losmandy G-11 GEM

Description

Comet 103P Hartley 2 whizzed by M38 and NGC 1907 this morning at dawn. It has now brightened to the verge of naked eye visibility and is a large, bright easy object in binoculars.
 

Photographer

James Maxwell

E-mail

jlmaxwell@jm-astro.com

Location

Near Jemez Springs, NM

Date

Oct 8-11, 2010

Equipment

Used a 10" F/4, Meade Schmidt Newtonian on Losmandy G-11. Cooled Canon 400D DSLR at approximately 25 Deg. F. 5" Refractor guidescope with Orion CCD for Autoguiding.

Description

Comet Hartley/2 on three consecutive nights in October after passing the double cluster. The bright star in the center photo is Eta-Persei (Miriam) which is about 1330 light years from Earth. Processed in Nebulosity and Photofiltre. Each frame is a series of 28-second exposures with Dark and Flat frames applied. Total exposure times of 26, 56, and 42 minutes, respectively.
 

Photographer

Curt Renz

Location

Arlington Heights, IL

Date

2010 OCT 22 at 18:01 CDT

Equipment

Sony Cyber-shot DSC-F717 on a tripod

Description

The Full Hunter's Moon rising above trees 33 minutes after moonrise and 1 minute after sunset
 

Photographer

Niels V. Christensen

E-mail

nvcchr@mail.dk

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

17. Oct. 2010

Equipment

WO FLT-110 and Canon 20Da. Guide via Meade LX200ACF 16" mounted on wedge.

Description

Widefield picture taken of Comet Hartley. Exposre time: 2*900sec.
 

Photographer

Jared Ferguson

Location

Backyard, Fort Collins, Co

Date

10/19/2010, approx. 9-10 PM

Equipment

Orion 80ED/Sirius mount Atik Titan Monochrome + Astrodon Luminance Filter

Description

This is one of the first shots I got using my Atik Titan ccd cam. Glorious Luna on a crisp Autumn night.
 

Photographer

Carmine Gargiulo

E-mail

astrosoft@libero.it

Location

Sant'Agnello (NA)- Italy

Date

2010-10-16 22:45 UT

Equipment

Camera Pentax K100D on TS apo 66 ED at f/4.4.

Description

Comet 103P Hartley in the Auriga constellation.
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