Photographer

Clement Elechi

Location

Roanoke, VA

Date

4/22/2009 about 6.20 am

Equipment

Hand-held Canon Digital Rebel XSi

Description

The crescent moon and Venus rising together in the east.

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

dougzubenel@gmail.com

Location

9 miles NW of Topeka, Kansas.

Date

April 23, 2009.

Equipment

Canon Rebel XTi (Hutech modified) with an 85mm Nikkor lens @ f/2.8; 6 second exposure at ISO 100. Wide-beam flashlight used to paint the windmill and tree with light.

Description

As I was driving north on Humphrey road in rural Kansas just northwest of Topeka, I spotted this fully intact windmill that beckoned to be the foreground for a twilight image of the planet Mercury.

Photographer

Clement Elechi

Location

Roanoke, VA

Date

4/22/09 6.20am

Equipment

Canon Digital Rebel XSi, handheld. 18-55mm lens.

Description

Venus and the crescent moon have risen in the east.

Photographer

Rick Baldridge

E-mail

rickbaldridge@comcast.net

Location

Los Altos, CA, USA

Date

April 26, 2009 9:30pm PDT

Equipment

Canon XTi Rebel with 200mm F2.8 lens.

Description

Waxing crescent Moon with very bright Earthshine above the Pleiades (Seven Sisters) which are also above the bright planet Mercury. Below Mercury is the very red variable star AS Arietis.

Photographer

Michael Boschat

E-mail

aa063@chebucto.ns.ca

Location

Apartment balcony in Halifax,Nova Scotia,Canada

Date

April 26,2009 at 9:30pm

Equipment

Tripod mounetd Canon Rebel 350D with 18-55mm lens set at 55mm with a 10 second exposure at f/5.6, 400 ISO.

Description

Image of cresent Moon with Pleiades (M45) and Mercury over Halifax.

Photographer

Paul Walker

E-mail

paulwaav@together.net

Location

Alto, New Mexico

Date

2008-06-03, 11:20 PM MDT to 12:05 AM MDT

Equipment

2 Canon Rebel XTi cameras with 18-55mm zooms. Homemade tracking plateform (Haig Mount) (stepper motor driven). Camera settings: 18mm (28mm efl), f/4.5, iso 1600. 4 minute exposures.

Description

2x4 image mosaic. 4 with each camera. Covers more than 180 degrees rom Little dipper on left to Scorpio on the right. Noise reduction with Noise Ninja 2, cropping and histogram stretch (modest stretch) with Picture Window Pro 2.5, auto stitching done with Panorama Plus 3 (Serif, Inc in the UK). Did an extreme historgram stretch.

Photographer

mojtaba taheri

E-mail

mojtaba.taherii@gmail.com

Location

maranjab-central desert of iran

Date

1/26/2009

Equipment

nikon D3 and 14-24 lense @ 14 on tripod f/2.8 iso 400 1280 sec

Description

I take this photo near the Maranjab caravansary under the dark clear sky .the light pollution in the north of picture caused by qom city and kashan-qom road.

Photographer

Ehsan

E-mail

ehsansanaei@yahoo.com

Location

Ardakan, Iran

Date

Janurary 2007

Equipment

Nikon D70s, 18-70 mm lens @ 18 mm

Description

A skygazer observe the fantastic Orion nebula with binoculars.

Photographer

Joshua Carter

Location

Carlsbad, NM

Date

Dec. 25, 2008 11:00PM

Equipment

Nikon D90 DSLR on tripod

Description

Big Dipper skyscape with barbed wire fence

Photographer

Frankie Lucena

E-mail

frankie57pr@yahoo.com

Location

Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico

Date

12/13/2008 at aprox. 10:55pm

Equipment

Kodak Z740 digital camera at F/2.8 for 8 secs at 400 asa.

Description

By shielding the Moon's glare with the roof of the house, I was able to photograph this Geminid meteor gliding through Orion's belt.