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Photographer

Pat Pinnell

Location

Franklin Co. Mo.

Date

July 01, 2011 aroung 3:30 am

Equipment

TSA102S, DSMI III, G-11, ImagesPlus 4.25, Photoshop for text only.

Description

Comet C/2009 P1 Garradd, at a distance from Earth over 2 a.u. at magnitude 10, comet info from the Minor Planet Center.
 

Photographer

Samuele Gasparini

E-mail

sam.gasp@yahoo.it

Location

Casole d'Elsa (Italy)

Date

04.07.2011

Equipment

Refr. Williams Optics 120 Ed with Hotech flattener and Canon 1000d. Mount Skywatcher Eq6 . 7x6 min shots at 800 Iso. Guide equipement: Magzero M5 on Skywatcher 80ed. Samuele Gasparini. Web address: www.astrobook.it

Description

The Veil Nebula is a cloud of heated and ionized gas and dust in the constellation Cygnus.
 

Photographer

Paul Bambury

Location

Forks of the Credit Provincial Park

Date

June 30th 11:46pm

Equipment

Skywatcher 8inch Newtonian on HEQ5pro mount. Canon T2i for imaging, and QHY5 on finderscope for guiding with Phd.

Description

M8 - the lagoon nebula. While adding to my Messier list of imaged object I took some of M8. I decided to add a few more captures as the quality looked. I didn't imagine at the time it would come out so good.
 

Photographer

Will Davis

Location

Tucson, Arizona

Date

05:45 UT, 06-17-2011

Equipment

A Meade DS series Saturn 114mm reflector telescope, and an Olympus C-750 UZ digital camera. Exposure time 1/400 second, at f/3.7, ISO 50.

Description

Waning Gibbous Moon, Two days after full in Sagittarius. the image is in monochrome because details seemed to come out better that way.
 

Photographer

Mike Boyle

E-mail

Boylemike1@aol.com

Location

Tampa Fl

Date

March 23rd Midnight

Equipment

Manually Guided 12 inch F5 Dobsonian Reflector 10MM eyepiece and Canon 130SX compact camera using High Definition video and Registack5

Description

My best out of 1000 photos. using ordinary equipment My telescope is not guided. I clipped and stitched 5 passes together and processed them in Registack 5. The camera costs about 200 dollars not 3000! Thanks Mike Boyle Member of Chiefland Astronomy Village
 

Photographer

Mike Boyle

E-mail

Boylemike1@aol.com

Location

Tampa Fl

Date

May 7th and 9th

Equipment

Manually Guided 12 inch F5 Dobsonian Reflector 42MM eyepiece and Canon 130SX compact camera using High Defintion video and Registack5

Description

Two times the ISS made an extraordinary Pass over Tampa. The later Pass was taken during my lunch hour from the parking lot where I work in Downtown Tampa with a limiting magnitude of 2! Yes, I got a lot of funny looks! (Member of Chiefland Astronomy Village.) I will delete the caption if you wish!
 

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Buena Vista, GA

Date

July 1, 2011 10:02 UT

Equipment

C14@f/28 Paramount ME PGR Flea 3 camera

Description

This was the first day of good seeing for the 2011 Jupiter apparition. This image highlights cahnges in the Oval BA from last year.
 

Photographer

Giacomo Bartolacci

E-mail

giacomo9783@libero.it

Location

Casole d'Elsa (SI) - Italy

Date

25th June 2011

Equipment

modified EOS40D on Tecnosky 70/420 with reducer/flattener W.O. type III; 9x5 min shots at 800 ISO

Description

Cat Pawn Nebula and the nebula that somebody names "Crab" taken in a very dark night from tuscan countryside
 

Photographer

Gabriel Hugo

Location

Bloemfontein, South Africa

Date

30/6/2011 06:36

Equipment

Body: Canon EOS 20 Lens: 100 - 400mm ISO 200 F 11 1/5 sec

Description

This picture of the moon and Venus was captured before sunrise, merely three hours before the birth of my grandson Gerber Hugo - a truly joyful and spectacular get-together.
 

Photographer

Kent Blackwell

E-mail

kent@exis.net

Location

Virginia Beach, VA

Date

29 June 2011 11:13 AM EDT

Equipment

Canon 20D camera 28mm f/3.2 36-second exposure ISO 800

Description

The NASA Minotaur 1 rocket was launched from Wallops Island, VA, about 100 miles from where I took the picture in Virginia Beach, VA and presented a beautiful sight!
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