Photographer

John Dvorak

Location

summit of Kilauea volcano, Hawaii

Date

July 5, 2010 8:14 pm HST

Equipment

Canon Ti1

Description

The foreground is illuminated by lava in the summit pit crater at Kilauea volcano. The Scorpion and the center of the Milky Way hang directly above.

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Pietra Bismantova - Reggio Emilia (Italy)

Date

2009/07/17

Equipment

Nikon D700, ob 24/70 f,5.6

Description

Pietra Bismantova (Reggio Emilia - Italia)

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Torgnon (Valle d'Aosta - Italy)

Date

2008/08/28

Equipment

Nikon D200, ob 18mm f 4,5

Description

A romantic italian starry night under the sky of Torgnon (Italy)

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

San Galgano - Siena (Italy)

Date

2009/07/19

Equipment

Nikon D700, ob 24/70 f,5.6

Description

San Galgano Cathedral (Siena - Italia) in a wonderful starry night.

Photographer

John Ambrose

E-mail

johnambrose@brinkster.net

Location

Cherry Stone Campground, Cheriton, Va

Date

April 14, 2010, 10:30PM

Equipment

Shot was taken at campsite with a Canon 20Da camera w/ Canon 50mm lens mounted atop Nexstar 6 for tracking. The shot is a single 60 second frame at ISO800; f/3.2; IDAS filter.

Description

The Beehive cluster with Mars close by, taken at Cherry Stone Campground in Virginia on April 14, 2010. A car passed down the road illuminating the pine tree during the shot.

Photographer

John Tonks

Location

Sheffield UK

Date

16 April 2010 2030

Equipment

Canon 350D SLR 55mmlens 1/8Sec @ 800ASA

Description

This view, looking west from Sheffield towards Manchester airport 30 miles away would normally be laced with three or four vapour trails, but the ongoing eruption of the Eyjafjallajoekull volcano in Iceland has turned the whole of the UK and much of northern Europe into a no-fly zone. The high altitude dust cloud is also starting to produce some interesting sunsets. The view shows the New Moon with Venus. Tiny Mercury is also in there somewhere!

Photographer

Peter Wienerroither

E-mail

peter.wienerroither@univie.ac.at

Location

near Vienna, Austria

Date

04/06/2010

Equipment

Canon EOS 5D, Canon EF 70-200

Description

Venus and Mercury over a castle near Vienna in dusk.

Photographer

Stan Karmilovich

Location

Dataw Island, SC

Date

February 8, 2010

Equipment

Canon Digital Rebel XT, Canon 75-300 mm Image Stabilized Ultrasonic lens at 150mm, f5.6, 5 seconds.

Description

Launch of STS-130 from Dataw Island, SC over Jenkins Creek and Polawana Island. Shot taken during booster rocket burn.

Photographer

Dieter Willasch

Location

Mount Ceder, South Africa

Date

12+13 March 2010

Equipment

Nikkor 50mm lens 1:1.4 @ f/3.5 Takahashi EM-11 SBIG STL-11000M

Description

This wide field image spans nearly 40x30 degrees in the sky and covers mainly parts of the constellations of Scorpius and Ophiuchus. In the upper right part of the image colorful nebulae around Antares, a massive Red Giant star, are displayed, but also extended dark nebulae lanes, the largest of them the so called Dark River, running from Antares down to the huge Dark Horse nebula complex at the bottom right. Left of center the very faint nebulosity around the star Zeta Ophiuchi can be seen, which has rarely been imaged.

Photographer

Vlad Popa

Location

Landscape Arch, Arches National Park, UT

Date

29 August 2009, 12:05 am

Equipment

Canon EOS ELAN 7N, EF 16-35mm f/2.8L USM, tripod, Fujichrome Provia 400X Slide Film, professionally scanned at Panda Lab, Seattle

Description

Jupiter shines bright above Landscape Arch in Arches National Park, Utah. The glow of the Milky Way in Aquila accompanies that of the setting moon in the arch opening.