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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

Javier R.-Pacheco

E-mail

javier.pacheco@gmx.es

Location

Ciudad Rodrigo-Salamanca, Spain

Date

2010-08-11, 21:17:04 (local time)

Equipment

Scopos Ed 66 APO refractor 400mm, Canon 550D (EOS rebel T2i),f/5.6, 1/250s, 100 ISO, Monopod

Description

Sunset in Ciudad Rodrigo-Spain, close to the Portuguese border during the Portugal wildfires that devastated many Portuguese forest last week. More than 30 wildfires were reported that day in the North half of Portugal. The dense smog in the background produced (unfortunately) the anomalous colors of this picture.
 

Photographer

Derek Santiago

E-mail

schmeah@aol.com

Location

Morristown,NJ USA

Date

9/23/09 and 8/6/10

Equipment

Imaging Camera: QSI540wsg Imaging Scope: 10"LX200R at F/10 Guide Camera: SX Lodestar Mount: Meade 10"LX200R Filters: Astrodon 5nm OIII, LRGB, IDAS LPS

Description

This is a deep image of the Planetary Nebula NGC 7662, also known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, in the constellation Andromeda. Long exposures using an OIII filter show detail in the rarely seen outer halo.
 

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson53@shaw.ca

Location

Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Date

Aug 13, 12:15 am

Equipment

Perseid meteor and Milky Way taken with my Canon 40D and Tokina Fisheye lens

Description

Was out in the early morning hours of August 13 and was lucky to view some beautiful Perseids, this one by the Milky Way, very pretty.
 

Photographer

Ken Spencer

Location

Stellafane Convention, 2010

Date

August 7, 2010, about 2 AM

Equipment

Nikon D300 with 16-85mm lens, set at 16mm. ISO 3200, 30 second exposure at f/3.5

Description

Photograph of unidentified observer on a stepladder, observing at the eyepiece of John Vogt's 32" telescope, on Friday Night, August 7, 2010 (Saturday morning) during the 2010 Stellafane Convention, Springfield, Vermont. Jupiter is the bright object to the right in the photo. Photograph by Ken Spencer
 

Photographer

Carmine Gargiulo

E-mail

astrosoft@libero.it

Location

Tyrrhenian Sea

Date

2010/08/03 04:15 UT

Equipment

Camera Pentax K100D whith 18-55 mm lens.

Description

Green flash photographed the Tyrrhenian Sea at dawn on August 3, 2010, the duration of the phenomenon was about 4 seconds, the solar limb was preceded by intense light emerald green that lit the clouds above.
 

Photographer

ANDRE ALEXANDER

E-mail

andrealex@bigpond.com

Location

Front yard of home address

Date

Saturday 31 July 2010

Equipment

Canon G11, 5 sec's 200 iso

Description

In ascending order Regulas Mercury Venus Saturn and Mars
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

08/06/10, 09:02ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F25, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x barlows, Astronomik RGB filter set.

Description

Jupiters two moons were transiting Ganymede and Io showing albedo features and there casted shadows on the surface of the planet. Turbulance at the NEB with a very dark spot at the center of the swirl and the SEB with a pronouce light green dual rings. On the Animation file it consist of three Lum. only sets and seven RGB set fot this ten frame animation.
 

Photographer

Parks Squyres

Location

SaddleBrooke, Arizona

Date

06.04.2010 00:00

Equipment

11" Celestron Telescope Additional Equipment HyperStar 3 Baader UHC-S Filter Camera Canon/Hutech 350 D Software DeepSkyStacker, Gimp2.6, Adobe Photo Shop Elements 7, and Paint Shop Pro 10

Description

The images were made over a peroid of 3 hours each on June 3rd & June 4th using approx. 500 short 10 second exposures on both nights. The seeing was not as good on the 4th so the images of Ceres are slightly larger.
 

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

August 7, 2010

Equipment

APM/TMB 130mm f/8 APO, QSI 583WSG, Mach1GTO

Description

NGC 6888 is a large Ha region in mid-Cygnus that is excited to illumination and expansion by a Wolf-Rayet star (WR 136 HD 192163). Ha (2 hours), L (2 hours), RGB (30 mins each).
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