Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

April 5, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod 5x180sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 AP Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M3, one of the largest and brightest globulars in the sky makes a wonderful visual and photographic object. It is also a very colorful globular.

Photographer

dietmar hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

35 km north of linz, austria

Date

24.feb.08

Equipment

5" TMB Apo f/9 SXVF M25C one shot color

Description

http://www.stargazer-observatory.com/M35.html

Photographer

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering, Ohio

Date

8/1/07 3h UT

Equipment

Orion StarBlast (imaging version) fitted with a Meade DSI Pro and a SkyGlow filter mounted side-by-side with a second StarBlast (original version) fitted with a Meade DSI on an LXD75.

Description

While imaging M11 and M26 I came across this beautiful globular that’s almost lost in the foreground Milky Way. This image of NGC6712 was taken with a DSI Pro (L:50x30sec) at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (imaging version) fitted with an Orion SkyGlow filter and a DSI (RGB:22x60sec) at the prime focus of second StarBlast (original version) mounted side-by-side on a Meade LXD75. The source images were saved as FITS3P combined offline in drizzle. Drizzle was also used to convert the FITS3P from the DSI to a BMP. The LRGB was then assembled in Photoshop

Photographer

Mike Broussard

E-mail

mike.broussard@gmail.com

Location

Maurice, LA, USA

Date

Aug 6th, 2007

Equipment

Telescope: Meade SN-8 (200mm, F/4, 812mm F.L.) Mount: Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD Camera: Hutech Modified Canon 350XT Exposure: 25x120 sec @ ISO 1600 Other Equipment: MPCC coma corrector, IDAS-LPS filter, DSI Pro guide camera, 102mm F/5 guide scope w/2x barlow. Processing: Darks, flats, offset calibration in IRIS. Post processing in PS along w/Noel Carboni's Astronomy Tools and Gradient XTerminator.

Description

Image of M22 taken on a hot summer night in southern Louisiana.

Photographer

Judd Isbell

Location

Hanna City, IL.

Date

07/21/07 01:00

Equipment

Orion SkyView Pro 203mm Newtonian Reflector; Camera - Meade DSI; AutoStar Suite and Adobe PhotoShop

Description

Star Cluster M22 in Sagittarius

Photographer

Zoran Belobrajic

E-mail

zbelobrajic@yahoo.com

Location

Tribalj, Croatia

Date

08/13/2007

Equipment

SBIG ST2000XM with CFW8a and Astronomik type 2c LRGB filter set through WO ZS105ED telescope on Losmandy GM8 mount. WO ZS105ED working at f7.LRGB image 14X4min Luminance binned 1X1, RG&B 7X3min each binned 2X2.

Description

Image shows M11, Wild Duck Cluster with Scutum area Milky Way stars and dark nebulae as background.

Photographer

Robert Horton

E-mail

stargazerbob@aol.com

Location

White Mountain, CA

Date

June 2002

Equipment

Takahashi FC100, F5.6 reducer, 800 Fuji film

Description

Here is a close up shot of Antares and M4, taken with a Takahashi FC100, taken the old fashion way - with film! This is a one hour exposure using Fuji 800, from a dark location with the Bristle Cone Pine Forest of White Mountain, CA. Compare this telescopic shot to my wide field one using a piggybacked medium format camera.

Photographer

Steve Crouch

E-mail

stevec@pcug.org.au

Location

Canberra (my back yard)

Date

12 September 2007 about 11pm

Equipment

RCOS 12.5" Ritchey Chretein mounted on Losmandy HGM200 with STL11000M camera. 60 minute unbinned exposures in red, green and blue were taken and these were combined as synthetic luminance.

Description

47 Tucanae (AKA NGC104) is the second brightest globular cluster in the sky after Omega Centauri. It has a much brighter highly condensed centre which is often highly over exposed in many shots.

Photographer

Neil Fairbairn

Location

Edmonton, Canada

Date

12 Jan 2008

Equipment

William Optics Megrez 110mm refractor with FR-III focal reducer, Canon 30D 60x3min ISO 800, guided with ATIK AT16-IC and Orion 90mm Mak, SkyWatcher HEQ-5 Pro mount.

Description

M45 The Pleiades (The Seven Sisters) star cluster with nebulosity. Processed using ImagesPlus and PS CS2

Photographer

Peder Raatz-Pedersen

Location

Denmark

Date

January 19. 21:00

Equipment

Skywatcher 80 ED PRO, EQ3-2, Nikon D40.

Description

The open cluster M39 is 300 million years old and can be found near Deneb.