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

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

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

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering, Ohio

Date

4/10/07 2h UT

Equipment

Orion StarBlast (original version), Meade LXD75, DSI and DSI Pro

Description

This image of M3 was taken using a Meade DSI Pro (L:50x20sec) and a DSI (RGB:10x30sec) at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (original version) driven by an LXD75. The source images were saved as FITS3P combined offline in Envisage/drizzle. Drizzle was also used to convert the FITS3Ps into BMPs which were then combined in Photoshop.

Photographer

Aaron A. Jocko

E-mail

ajocko@hotmail.com

Location

Backyard,Mattawa,Ontario

Date

3/29/07/ 01:16am

Equipment

Orion 120mm ST on a cg5 mount 50sec ISO 1600

Description

Globular Cluster M92 (NGC 6341), class IV, in Discovered 1777 by Johann Elert Bode. Cataloged on March 18, 1781, the same day as 8 other objects, all of them Virgo Cluster galaxies (M84-M91). It was William Herschel who first resolved it into stars in 1783.

Photographer

DI STAZIO

Location

ROME

Date

June 23, 2006

Equipment

Celestron Nextstar C11 at f 6.3 , with a Canon 350 D

Description

The picture (a reduction from the original), is the combination of 20 30-second images, recorded close to the center of Rome. Imagine the result of the same equipment in a place with dark sky! The software used to elaborate the image is IRIS.

Photographer

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering, Ohio

Date

2/6/07 2h UT

Equipment

Orion StarBlast (original), Meade DSI, Meade LXD75

Description

This is image of NGC2266 in Gemini was taken with a Meade DSI at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (original) on and LXD75. The luminance data (40x30sec) was taken using the color sharp model while the color data (40x30sec) was taken using the color soft model. All of the source images were saved as FITS3P, aligned and combined in drizzle. Drizzle was also used to save the color data as a BMP. The luminance and color data were combined in Photoshop.

Photographer

Dietmar Hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

Stargazer private observatory near Linz, Austria

Date

4-06

Equipment

9" TMB Apo f/9 @f/7 Tele Vue 0,8 reducer SXV H9C guided with 4" f/6,2 TMB Apo Mountegra - single arm fork mount

Description

first light image of my 9" TMB Apo in a night of good transparency abd mediocre seeing. 43 minutes total exposure time. image acquisition with SX original software. color conversion, non linear strech in SX software. postprocessingin Pix Insight Le and Photoshop CS2. feel free to drop in at my webpage for more information. http://stargazer.christelhager.info/index.htm

Photographer

Kelvin Phoon

Location

San Diego, CA

Date

1/14 to 1/16/07

Equipment

4-panel mosaic, Meade DSI II-C through Celestron C80ED 80mm Refractor mounted on Meade LX90 8" SCT. 1 hour per color channel per panel. LRGB processing.

Description

M45, the Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus. This cluster of approximately 500 stars includes seven bright mythological sisters (center and right), daughters of Pleione and Atlas (far left). At a distance of 400 light years from earth, the cluster is passing through an area of interstellar dust and gas unrelated to its stars' formation but reflecting blue light from the young, hot stars.

Photographer

Anthony Ayiomamitis

E-mail

anthony@perseus.gr

Location

Athens, Greece

Date

Sep 25, 2006 @ 02:30 - 04:45 UT+3

Equipment

AP 160 f/7.5 StarFire EDF, AP 1200GTO GEM, SBIG ST-2000XM, SBIG CFW10, SBIG LRGB + IR-block

Description

How did Messier miss this stunning cluster in Messier? Considered one of the top 100 NGC and non-Messier objects. Also known as the E.T. Cluster due to the bright member stars being similar to those of an "extra-terrestrial".