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Celestial Scenes
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PhotographerTheo RamakersLocationSocial CircleDate2011-07-24 14:39 UTEquipmentSolarMac40 on a Skywatcher EQ6. Camera is a DMK41AU02.AS.DescriptionThe sun with Active Regions AR1251, 1254 and 1259. The image is a composite of two images of which the surface image was inverted. Each image was captured using IC Capture, 300 frames with a frame rate of 15 fps. Surface image used a gamma of 42, a gain of 260 and exposure time of 1/455 sec. The prom image was captured with the same setting except for the gamma which was at 199. Stacking and wavelets in Registax 5. final processing in Photoshop. |
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PhotographerBrian CombsLocationBuena Vista, GADateJuly 24, 2011 9:37 UTEquipmentC14@f/28 Paramount ME PGR Flea 3DescriptionSeeing was excellent this morning when this image was taken. |
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PhotographerBernard MillerLocationRnacho Hidalgo, NMDateJune 3 and 5, 2011EquipmentTelescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 12x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutesDescriptionHere is a picture of M63, also known as the Sunflower Galaxy in the constellation Canes Venatici. The Sunflower Galaxy is about 37 million light years away and has a diameter of 100,000 light years, about the same as our Milky Way galaxy. |
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PhotographerBernard MillerLocationRancho Hidalgo, NMDateMay 28 - June 1, 2011EquipmentTelescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO Luminance: 15x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutesDescriptionHere is a picture of M64, also known as the Black Eye Galaxy and the Sleeping Beauty Galaxy. It is a spiral galaxy about 20 million light years away in the constellation Coma Berenices. It is about 45,000 light years in diameter, and the inner part of the galaxy (about 3000 light years in diameter) is rotating in the opposite direction from the outer part of the galaxy (about 40,000 light years in diameter). |
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PhotographerPatrick McCulloughLocationDenver,Co.Date12-11-2010,9:00pmEquipmentMeade 8in Lx90 sct telescope,Canon EOS Rebel T2i camera in Video setting.Twenty frames stacked in Adobe photoshop 6.0DescriptionPhoto shows craters Ptolemaeus,Alphonsus & Arzachel. |
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PhotographerGerrit HiemstraLocationRietmolen (Netherlands)Date15-03-2011EquipmentMeade 12 inch, barlow 2x, DMK41, red filter. Image processing: Avistack2 and PhotoShop.DescriptionEarly in the evening I have taken some avi's from the moon. De seeing was reasonably, the barlow 2x could be used. |
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PhotographerMike CLocationPrairieville, LADate07/20/11 @ 5:43AMCSTEquipmentFuji S2 Pro SLR: ISO100, F4, (2) 15 second exposures. Heavily processed in PS.DescriptionI saw the space shuttle pass overhead for the last time this morning! Beautiful! The photo is a compilation overlay of two images (15 second exposures) taken about 15 seconds apart, which is why you see two sets of streaks with a gap in the middle. Because of the brightness of the sky this morning, I had to process the heck out of the images. This is why you see noisy dots in the streaks rather than a nice clean line. The paths only showed up in the RED channel (and then, only barely so). I copied out the RED channel info and adjusted the levels until just the streaks remained, then did a lighten overlay of just the streak pixels into the composite RGB background image. We were supposed to see both the space shuttle and the ISS this morning. I don't know which this is, or if it's both because of proximity. I expect we'll know more when other folks post their images. -Mike |
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PhotographerNiels V. ChristensenLocationCopenhagen, DenmarkDateJan-2011EquipmentWO FLT-110 and Canon 20Da. LX200ACF 16" and SBIG ST-8XME.DescriptionReprocessed picture of M1, a 150% size cropped widefield picture. First submission was this one, http://media.skyandtelescope.com/images/M1_Center-crop_new_NC-LCEnh-MSS_USM-crop-frame_web.jpg |
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PhotographerLynn HilbornLocationGrafton,OntarioDateJuly 1,3,5,2011EquipmentTEC 140 @f7 and FLI ML8300 camera with Baader filters. Mount is a Tak NJP with Temma2.DescriptionYoung star forming region and reflection nebula contrasted against dust clouds of the Milky Way. Also seen are small compact emission clouds (Herbig-Haro objects) commonly seen in star forming regions. |
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PhotographerBane CvetkovicLocation+43° 16' 9.56", +22° 9' 37.94"Date2011-07-08 00:27EquipmentNikon D90/Voigtlander 58mm f/1.4 lensDescriptionA group of astronomers photographed against sky backdrop |
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