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Photographer

Pat Pinnell

Location

Franklin Co. Mo.

Date

May 30 2010 - 04:00 a.m.

Equipment

AT8RC, SSProV2, G-11

Description

comet C/2009 R1 McNaught, comet information from The Comet and Minor Planet Ephemeris Service, M1=8.1, distance from Earth:1.286 a.u., distance from Sun:0.907 a.u., sky motion:4.28 "/minute, 90seconds X 3, given the Moon was 94% illuminate, this comet is pretty bright.
 

Photographer

Dr. Anthony Recascino

Location

Ormond Beach Florida

Date

June 5, 2010

Equipment

Stacked images of R1 McNaught from the evening of June 6.

Description

Comet R1 McNaught
 

Photographer

Steve Yerby

E-mail

syerby@gmail.com

Location

Richmond, VT

Date

2:30am est

Equipment

ED80 with Canon XT CGE Mount Meade DSI - guide on star (not comet) Exposure - 15 mins (3x5)

Description

This one was hard to catch due to it's close timing with twilight...
 

Photographer

sadegh Ghomizadeh

E-mail

info@astro-persia.com

Location

Iran Tehran

Date

26 April. 18.54 UTC

Equipment

C11 Celestron + DMK21AU04.

Description

In good seeing & Atmosphere on 26 April it shown good details & good color in this capturetotal 12000 frames stacks.
 

Photographer

Gianni Pasquali

E-mail

spicantares@alice.it

Location

Cimone Trentino North Italy

Date

02/05/2009 21h11m32s

Equipment

Canon eos 40D at prime focus of a Maksutov Cassegrain Intes Micro Alter M603 on a Vixem GP mount with Skysensor 2000

Description

The moon seems a world in black and white but if we exaggerate the colors in phase of elaboration we realize there of as its surface is various. This is due to differences in chemical components of the lunar surface, due to remixing caused by asteroidal impacts or from lava effusions.
 

Photographer

Herb Bubert

E-mail

Budboy49@aol.com

Location

Derry, NH

Date

4-21-2010

Equipment

11 inch Starmaster ELT. Tracking on Tom'O dual axis equatorial platform. Nikon Coolpix 4500 with 14mm Scopetronix eyepiece. 137 frames @ 200ISO stacked in Registax.

Description

This is part of a project with the goal to image Saturn through one complete cycle.
 

Photographer

sadegh Ghomizadeh

E-mail

info@astro-persia.com

Location

Iran Tehran

Date

23 march 20.15 UTC

Equipment

C11 + DMK21AU04.AS

Description

SATURN'S RINGS: This week Saturn is "at opposition." That's astronomy jargon for "Saturn and the sun are on opposite sides of the sky." Saturn rises at sunset and soars overhead at midnight, up all night. This arrangement has a striking effect on Saturn's rings. Ciao
 

Photographer

Jim Hutsler

Location

Caseyville

Date

February 10, 2010 at 9:00 p.m. cst

Equipment

Pentax K20 with a 150 mm lens. Nine second exposure, F2.0, and ISO 400.

Description

Mars and the Beehive Cluster appear together in the winter sky throught the month of February.
 

Photographer

amitkakade

E-mail

amitkakademiraj2000@gmail.com

Location

Rameswarm

Date

15th Jan. 2010 01.35pm IST

Equipment

Sony(DSC-W35), Exposer time 1/8 sec,ISO-320,Solar filter-Burnad

Description

Annular solar eclipse looks like an Exact ring of fire.This time cold wind was flying and fishes tring to come outside from see water, birds were also calm and shadows of trees also feel different. Such was Great moment.
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

01/13/10-02/17/10

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, TeleVue 3x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set.

Description

This is a composition of images taken from January 13th to February 17th 2010. On this set image from the closest to Earth (Jan.27th) and from the Sun (Jan.29th), Also an image of a dust Storm on the North Polar Hood from February 2nd.
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