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Photographer

John Sussenbach

Location

Houten, Netherlands

Date

14 Febr 2009

Equipment

Atmospheric conditions: Seeing 7/10, Transparancy 8/10 Telescope : Celestron C11 with Televue 3x Barlow and Astronomik RGB filters Camera: DMK2AF4.AS Exposure time: 1/5 sec; gain 100%; gamma 40%; per color 2x 2 min exposures total of 980 frames Processing: Registax 4.0 and finally per color 500 best frames stacked

Description

I send you an earlier version of my Ceres image, but in this revised version I added some processing intermediates
 

Photographer

Chris Dalla Piazza

Location

Muncy, PA

Date

2/16/09 3:00-4:00AM EST

Equipment

6" f/4.5 Lurie-Houghton Newtonian. Lumicon off axis guider. MI-250 GEM. SXVF-M25C w/external autoguider. Processing in MaxIm DL, Photoshop, and Noise Ninja.

Description

Comet Lulin with North at top and East to the left. Around a 2ยบ field of view.
 

Photographer

Fabiomassimo Castelluzzo

E-mail

fmcastelluzzo@hotmail.com

Location

Riano Italy

Date

14 Feb 2009 4.00 am

Equipment

Newton 10 inch f4.8 Skywatcher, eq6 pro Canon 350d unmodified baader coma corrector

Description

I took thi picture (32X80sec 800 ISO) with the moon at 9 degrees distance. I did not use any filter. In the region upper left results a nebulosity that I don't know if it is a reflection or part of comet
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

02/14/09 10:26ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, F/R F6.3, DMK21AF04 Ccd.

Description

The International Space Station observed from Puerto Rico, At mag -2 and at 48 deg height angle it was joy to capture on this particular day (Valentine's Day). It was manually tracked and awaiting its next visit.
 

Photographer

John Buonomo

E-mail

jbuonomo@astronight.com

Location

Billerica MA

Date

02-16-09 3am-5am

Equipment

Celestron CGE William Optics 80MM Canon 350d Autoguided with C8 and DSI pro PHD guiding captured with Nebulosity Processed with Photoshop CS3

Description

Total of 25x180sec subs
 

Photographer

Mike Hood

E-mail

MHVega@aol.com

Location

Kathleen

Date

2-1-09 9:32 UT

Equipment

TEC 200 F-32 with SkyNyx camera

Description

Saturn with thin rings almost on edge.
 

Photographer

Mike Hood

Location

Kathleen, GA

Date

1-31-09

Equipment

TEC 200 at F-25, SkyNyx camera

Description

Venus with slight faint atmosphere marking.
 

Photographer

James Champagne

Location

Ramah, Louisiana

Date

January 31, 2009 8:39-9:14 PM CST

Equipment

Canon EF 200mm f/2.8L II Camera Lens at f/2.8 Auto-focused on crescent moon Piggybacked on Celestron C8 Fork Mount Canon XTi 24 X 60 second exposures ISO 1600

Description

Comet 144P/Kushida making a rendezvous with The Hyades star cluster.
 

Photographer

Ing. Eduardo Alamilla Esquivel

E-mail

hola_my_friend@hotmail.com

Location

Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico

Date

January 27th, 2009

Equipment

Telescope: William Optics 80 mm f/6 Megrez Super APO Camera: Meade DSI Pro II Monochromatic Mount: Meade LX200GPS Filter: Astronomik CLS

Description

Exposure Time: 5 min. Visual magnitude: 2.0 (Highly polluted skies in my town).
 

Photographer

Dave Finnigan

Location

Halesowen, England

Date

6 January 2009 18.31 UT

Equipment

8" Meade LX 200 Classic SCT equatorial mount , DMK 21 AU04.AS camera, 2.5x Televue Powermate, Astronomik red filter. 1125 frames stacked in Registax.

Description

The lunar crater Moretus.
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