Photographer

Denis Marquis

Location

St-Agapit (Québec

Date

18 sept. 2010 1:45h a.m.

Equipment

Canon 1000D at prime focus.ISO 800 and 1600. Orion refractor 110mm ed f/7 Mount: Televue equatorial RSM-2000 Manuel guiding with guiding telescope. 8x5 minutes +dark+ offset (Total exposure:45 min.) Stack(DSS)+ PS3

Description

Here is the open star cluster known as the Pleiades(the seven sister), that one can easily percive the evening and are part of the constelletion of Taurus.Clouds around stars are especially noticeable with long exposure photo.

Photographer

Herbert Walter

Location

Melbourne / Australia

Date

2010 August

Equipment

Telescope 16'' RCOS (f=3700mm) Camera Apogee U9000 Filter LRGB Astrodon filters Exposure L 15 x 180 s RGB á 7 x 300s Total 2h 30min Names NGC 6809, GCL 113, ESO 460-SC21 Software THELI, CCDStack, Photoshop CS3 Location Northern Galactic Members Telescope Australia - Remote

Description

M 55 - Clobular Cluster in Sagittarius One of the brithest an most photogen clusters in the southern sky. The distance is 17.300 LY, Magnitude 6.3 and the appearent diameter 19' (about 2/3 of full moon). Discovered by Nicholas Louis de Lacaille in 1752 (during a trip in South Africa) and more then 10 years later cataloged by Charles Messier (due the low latitude hard to see from Europe).

Photographer

Mohammad Ashrafy

E-mail

mohammad.ashrafy@gmail.com

Location

Near Kermanshah-West of Iran

Date

12/08/2010

Equipment

Canon EOS 550D with a simple tripod

Description

In this Photo you can see the Milky way and the constellations Cassiopiea and Perseus over an Old tree .A part of milky way that is in perseus are showed in this photo and you can see The Double Cluster (H and Chi Persi) .It has 30 Sec of exposure and ISO 200 and f/18.Those Red fuzzy clouds was High altitude Cyrus clouds.

Photographer

John Theil Pedersen

E-mail

j-theil@mail.dk

Location

Denmark

Date

8/12/2010

Equipment

Equinox 120 at 7,5 on a EQ 6 pro mount and modded 6 megapixel Nikon D50

Description

Alberio, 10 x 10 seconds + 10 X 20 seconds ISO 800 stacked in DSS and processed in Photoshop.

Photographer

Peter Wienerroither

E-mail

peter.wienerroither@univie.ac.at

Location

Vienna, Austria

Date

04/18/2010

Equipment

Pentax 75, CCD QHY8, Vixen GP-DX

Description

Mars was near M44 in mid April 2010.

Photographer

Mahdi Zamani

E-mail

zidmani@gmail.com

Location

Mesr, Esfahan, Iran

Date

11/2009

Equipment

telescope: William optic 110 mm Megrez. mount: Skywatcher HEQ5. Camera: Canon 30D. Exposure: 6 min. ISO: 3200.

Description

NGC 869 & NGC 884 or X&H: A Double Open Cluster X&H is are over 7,000 light years distant toward the constellation of Perseus, but are separated by only hundreds of light years.

Photographer

Mahdi Zamani

E-mail

zidmani@gmail.com

Location

Mesr, Esfahan, Iran

Date

12/5/2009

Equipment

Telescope: William Optics 110 mm APO f/6, Megrez. Mount:Skywatcher HEQ5 controlled by EQMOD Guiding:Orion StarShoot AutoGuider on William Optics 66 mm. Camera: modified Canon 30D. without filter.

Description

The Pleiades is one of the brightest and closest open clusters. This cluster also known as the Seven Sisters and M45. This image is a composite of 20 photos. Total exposure: 2h 30min

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

June 21, 2009

Equipment

10" Orion Newtonian f/4.7 w/Baader MPCC; Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; Canon 350D (self-modified) w/Astronomik EOS Clip IR filter, 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; 31 x 60s @ ISO 1600

Description

M107 is a loosely packed, magnitude 10.00 globular cluster in the constellation Ophiuchus, about 21,000ly from Earth. It was discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1782 but wasn't added to Messier's list of objects until 1947

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

June 13, 2009

Equipment

10" Orion Newtonian f/4.7 w/Baader MPCC; Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; Canon 350D (self-modified) w/Astronomik EOS Clip IR filter, 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; 9 x 300s @ ISO 400

Description

At magnitude 8.00, The Gumball Globular is one of the more faint clusters in Ophiuchus. At one time, it was considered to be a "closely-packed" open cluster rather than a globular. M12 was discovered by Charles Messier on May 30, 1764 and lies approximately 16,000 light-years away from Earth.

Photographer

Matija Pozojevic

Location

Petrova gora/Croatia/Europe

Date

May 23th, 2009

Equipment

Canon 300D + Canon 70-200mm f/4L @ 135mm f/5.6 18x480sec @ ISO800 Guiding with Maksutov 90/1250 + QHY5 guiding camera (PHD Guiding) Mount: EQ6 Vis upgraded to EQ6 SynScan

Description

There are several parts of the Milky Way where no dust blocks our view, the Scutum Star Cloud is one of those. E. Barnard called this region the "Gem of the Milky Way". The large galactic star cluster at the center of the image is M11, the Wild Duck Cluster. It is situated at the northern edge of the star cloud. In the center of the iamge is M11. Larger version here, http://www.hrastro.com/ScutumStarCloudM11/