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PhotographerTrevor BarryLocationBroken Hill AustraliaDate29th April 2009 10:40 UTCEquipment16" F4.5 Newt on GEM DMK 21AU04 with Astronomic RGB filters and Orion filter wheelDescriptionThis image was captured at Broken Hill in the remote outback of Australia by Trevor Barry, the seeing was very good 8+/10. The sope is highly modified and the GEM was designed and built by me, housed in my observatory. I recently designed and built a Peltier cooler for my primary mirror and used it to great effect to capture this image. |
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PhotographerIgor ChekalinLocationTaganrog, RussiaDate13 clear nights in March and April 2009EquipmentCanon 350D(self-modded), 10" Newton (254/1200mm) on EQ6-PRO mount with auto-guiding. Astrodon 6nm H-alpha filter. Baader 8nm O-III filter.DescriptionThis image was taken during March and April 2009. 13 clear nights. Light-polluted urban sky (visual limit 4.0m) |
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PhotographerTed RaffertyLocationGaithersburg, MarylandDateFeb/Mar/Apr 2009EquipmentMeade LXD75 8-inch f/4 Schmidt-Newtonian, Meade DSI Pro 2 imagerDescriptionLHaRGB image of M51 using exposures taken on 8 different nights between Feb and Apr 2009. The image is a combination of 70 120s L exposures, 15 480s H-alpha exposures, 46 240s R exposures, 14 240s G exposures, and 19 480 B exposures. Exposures were captured using Nebulosity 2 and auto-guided using PHD. Image processing done with AIP4WIN, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity 2, and PhotoShop. |
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PhotographerStephen OpgenorthLocationSurprise, AZDateApr. 22nd 2009, Aprox. 0511EquipmentCanon Rebel XSi on 6" f/8.7 amateur built scope with 2x barlow mounted on an edmund scientific equatorial. This scope was built by my uncle when he was a teenager (early 60's), hand ground mirror and all. I restored it a couple of years ago.DescriptionVenus half way behind the limb of the moon. 1/60 sec exposure, brightness & contrast adjusted in F-Spot photo manager, then unsharp mask and image rescale in GIMP |
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PhotographerBill WeirLocationMetchosin, British Columbia CanadaDateApril 28 & 29/09 2330 -0130 hrs PDTEquipmentF/5 12.5" dob and f/8 6" dob Pencil sketch on white paper, inverted with PhotoshopDescriptionLate in the evening of April 28/09 I had the opportunity to watch a second Tiatan shadow transit. The conditions were far from ideal with a very light haze and less than optimum seeing. I picked up the first sighting of the shadow on the limb of the planet at just 0631 UT as an indentation on the edge. . With the fluctuations in seeing, variable transparency and tree blockage, I managed to observe almost half of the transit. I marked dots at 5 locations for where the shadow fell. Where I placed the Moons is where they were, when I first spotted the shadow. This observation was one of the highlights of my observing life, seeing as 50 years ago on April 29th, my own shadow began to fall on this planet. |
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PhotographerDewey J. BarkerLocationMid-South Star Gaze French Camp, MSDateApril 23, 2009 4:30 AMEquipmentFuji Fine Pix S7000 mounted on a standard tripodDescriptionVenus and Mars at dawn over the Sangre Telescope dome at the Rainwater Observatory during the 2009 Mid-South Star Gaze |
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PhotographerNiels V. ChristensenLocationCopenhagen, DenmarkDate24, 25 April-2009EquipmentMeade LX200AFC 16" placed in polar mode via Ken Milburn wedge. SBIG ST-8XME camera used.DescriptionM94, a LRGB picture, exposure time L=43*3min. R,G,B=9*3min. each. Dark, flat frame subtraction done on each sub. LRGB Astronomik filters used together with a IDAS LPS 2" filter. Sub's taken with Meade LX200AFC 16", Optec NextGEN Wide Field 0.5X reducer and SBIG ST-8XME. MaxIm DL and Adobe Photoshop used for picture enhancements. |
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PhotographerCraig & Tammy TempleLocationHendersonville, TNDateApril 16, 2009EquipmentOrion 80ED (f/7.5); Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; Canon 350D (self-modified) with Astronomik IR-block EOS clip filter + 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; 40 x 150s @ ISO 1600DescriptionThis globular cluster in Canes Venatici was discovered by Charles Messier in 1764. It is made up of about 500,000 stars. At magnitude 6.2, is is visible to the naked eye in very dark skies. This image is a total of 100 minutes and the temperature was 56° F. The mag. 14.1 galaxy NGC5263 is visible above M3 near the top of the image. |
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PhotographerCraig & Tammy TempleLocationHendersonville, TNDateApril 11, 2009EquipmentCelestron C8 SCT with Celestron f/6.3 FR/FF; Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; Canon 350D (self-modified) w/Astronomik EOS Clip IR filter + 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; 60 180s @ ISO 1600DescriptionThis unbarred spiral galaxy in Canes Venatici, was the first galaxy discovered by Pierre Mechain in 1779. It's many flocculent spiral arms resemble a sunflower bloom. This image is a total of 3 hours integration time and the temperature was about 52° F. |
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PhotographerCraig & Tammy TempleLocationHendersonville, TNDateApril 23, 25 & 26, 2009EquipmentCelestron C8 SCT with Celestron f/6.3 FR/FF; Atlas EQ-G w/EQMOD, Guided; Canon 350D (self-modified) w/Astronomik EOS Clip IR filter + 2" Hutech IDAS LPS filter; Best 67/90 180s & best 59/62 150s @ ISO 1600DescriptionDespite its magnitude of 8.5, M101 is a difficult target due to it's low surface brightness. At 170,000 ly across, The Pinwheel is a large face-on spiral galaxy in the constellation Ursa Major covering almost 1/2 degree of the sky. Pierre Mechain discovered this galaxy in 1781, and Charles Messier verified its position. He then added it to his catalog as one of his final entries. |
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