Photographer

dietmar hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

35 km north of linz, austria

Date

july 2008

Equipment

9" TMB Apo SXVF H16

Description

Date: 13.7.2007 - seeing 6-7/10; transp. 4-5/10 Scope: 9" TMB Apo f/6.8 using Astrophysicsreducer for OSC - M25C. 9" f/9 for monochrome CCD H16. CCD: SXVF H16- 10x1 sec L, 10x1 sec + 10x4 min R,G,B (synthetic L) Filter: Astronomik IIc July 2008: Software: AstroArt4 image acquisition, autoguiding, preprocessing in Maxim Dl Processing: postprocess. PS CS2 The colors in the image result from a G2V star-color-calabration procedure for the entrire image-train.

Photographer

Jamie Bradley

Location

Chesnee SC

Date

02-01-09 3:30 am

Equipment

Orion Atlas Mount Orion 6" Imaging Newtonian Orion SSDSCI Pro

Description

20x180 Second Exposures Nice cluster of about 500,000 stars in Canes Venatici, some 33,900 light years away from Earth

Photographer

Manuel Rodriguez Huerta

E-mail

mrodh@infinitum.com.mx

Location

Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Date

December 28, 2008 19:02 h. Local Time (UT -6).

Equipment

Sony DSC-W100 digital camera. f/2.8, ISO speed 125, focal length 7.9 mm, exposure 3 sec.

Description

The Earth, the Moon, Mercury, Jupiter and Venus (Five Solar System Objects) in a single picture, an event not usually seen.

Photographer

Bob Reffitt

E-mail

br@nc.rr.com

Location

Apex, NC home PC

Date

from pc MS WW Telescope program

Equipment

Phote from home PC with MS WW telescope program running.

Description

image may be a reflection of telescope. I just happen to zoom in on Vega and notice this image. Editor's note: yes, this is a typical reflection on the DSS plates. I still included it on the gallery as an excample- that's for being skeptical. -Sean Walker

Photographer

Jamie Bradley

Location

Spartanburg SC

Date

10-26-08

Equipment

Orion 6" Imaging Newtonian Orion Starshoot Pro Orion Atlas Mount

Description

M45 18x300 Sec Exp.

Photographer

Craig Bobchin

E-mail

etx_Astro_Boy@sbcglobal.net

Location

OCA Anza Dark Sky Site

Date

09/01/08 1:00am

Equipment

Celestron 80ED Refractor w/Williams Optics .8 Focal Reducer Canon 20d Losmandy G-11 w/Gemini Meade10"SCT as guide scope SBIG STV sutoguider

Description

The Double Cluster is the common name for the open clusters NGC 884 and NGC 869, which are near each other in the constellation Perseus. A beautiful telescopic and photographic object that is visible by the naked eye from dark skies. Somehow Messier missed this one.

Photographer

Mark Sibole

E-mail

Astronomy@qteaser.com

Location

Fife Lake, Michigan

Date

Oct 11-2008

Equipment

Meade 80 mm refractor and SXVF-H9 CCD camera

Description

This is a very nice asterism (non-associated stars that form a visual cluster) in the constellation of Vulpecula.that resembles a coat hanger. A full sized image can be seen here. http://astronomy.qteaser.com/images/TheCoatHangerSX.jpg

Photographer

Alejandro Garro

E-mail

alejandro.garro@yahoo.com

Location

Cordoba, Argentina

Date

10/1/2008

Equipment

Sky-Watcher 8" EQ5 Dual Axis Drive - SC1 Modified for long exposure webcam (Philips SPC900)

Description

This photo is about one of the most beautiful globular cluster. 70 x 10 seconds ligthframes stacked in mosaic mode. It was taken with a webcam modified for long exposure.

Photographer

William Warden

Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Date

8/27-28/08, 9/27-30/08

Equipment

8" LX200R scope, G11 Mount, SX AO .2 sec exposures, IDAS LPR filter, Ha CS 10 nm filter, Oiii baader 8.5 nm filter, SX H9 Camera. Luminance 28x2 min, Ha and Oiii 17x5 min each

Description

Globular cluster M 15 augmented with narrow band filters to enhance planetary nebula Pease 1 (red object lower right of core). Pease 1 was the first planetary nebula found in a globular cluster. It was initially noted to appear very bright on a photographic plate using a Pulkovo ultra-violet filter compared to neighboring stars (otherwise of about equal magnitude). Subsequent spectrographic study revealed green lines of oxygen characteristic of planetary nebulae as well as red lines of hydrogen. A larger version is available here: http://whwastro.homestead.com/files/M15-f10-2008-800r.jpg Here's a nice article on the topic by Leos Ondra: http://www.seds.org/MESSIER/xtra/leos/pease1.html

Photographer

Ben Adlof

Location

Canton, MI

Date

9/2/08 10:07 pm EDT

Equipment

C-8 + Meade LPI + 2X Barlow

Description

The LPI and 2X Barlow easily split each pair.