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Photographer

Kent Blackwell

E-mail

kent@exis.net

Location

Coinjock, NC

Date

December 1, 2008 5:45 pm EST

Equipment

Canon 20Da DSLR, 28mm f/7.1 ISO 400

Description

The view of a lonely ditch bank road in North Carolina with the Moon, Venus and Jupiter overhead.
 

Photographer

Wojciech Piskorz

Location

Gliwice, Poland

Date

01.12.2008.

Equipment

Canon 350D, Sky-Watcher 114/500, 1,6 s eksposure, ISO 800.

Description

This imags shows view from Gliwce, Poland, several minutes before occultation of Venus behind the Moon.
 

Photographer

Mohammad Ansari

E-mail

AnsariZadeh@Gmail.com

Location

Shiraz, Iran

Date

Dec. 01 2008, 18:00 (GMT+3.5)

Equipment

Pentax K10D Digital camera
 

Photographer

Gain Lee

E-mail

gainlee@aol.com

Location

Huddersfield UK

Date

01 DECEMBER 2008 15.45UT

Equipment

CANON 5D WITH CANON EF-L35-350MM @ 350MM AND WILLIAM OPTICS MEGREZ 80 MM FLOURITE REFRACTOR ON FIXED TRIPOD

Description

Occultaion of Venus on the 1st of December 2008. Images showing Venus just seconds away from being hidden behind the moon and minutes after reappearance an hour and a half later. Jupiter is the bright object to the North.
 

Photographer

Kelsey Guerra

E-mail

jcguerramd@yahoo.com

Location

Randolph New Jersey

Date

11/20/08 at 5:30 pm

Equipment

Canon G9 - standard lens

Description

Venus and Jupiter dance along the southwest dusky sky on a crispy New Jersey night...! Tomorrow the moon with join the planets...can't wait!
 

Photographer

Eric Bishop

Location

SW Phoenix, AZ

Date

11/30/08 1830

Equipment

Tripod mounted Nikon D200 Digital using 70-200 @120mm f/2.8 VR Zoom ISO 100 6 second exposure @ f/5.6

Description

Image rotated and cropped with Photoshop CS2 to show correct orientation to horizon.
 

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

11/27/08 09:30ut

Equipment

Equipment: LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, Astronomik LRGB filter set, Atik MFW.

Description

Saturn taken on the 27th, 05:30am (Good Turkey catch) in this stage the rings are getting narrower. Plus a small spot on the center of the lower ring shadow. And also showing other images taken by me in the last 5yrs showing its tilt angle as time passes to the present.
 

Photographer

Adrian Guzman

E-mail

bricks5@aol.com

Location

san jose ca.

Date

11208

Equipment

nikon coolpix4500
 

Photographer

Theo Ramakers

Location

Mansfield, Georgia

Date

11/20/2008 18:14:42 local time

Equipment

CPC925 with DMK21AU04-AS in direct focus with a Williams Optics 2x barlow at an focal ratio of 13. 31 images out of 6000 at 1/1000sec.

Description

This is a special image showing the ISS on its 10th anniversary date with the space shuttle Endeavour docked. While I took this image, the second of 4 EVAs was in progress and spacewalkers Heide Stefanyshyn-Piper and Shane Kimbrough were working on the starboard solar alpha rotary joint.
 

Photographer

Bob Johnson

E-mail

bjohnson53@shaw.ca

Location

Saskatoon Saskatchewan

Date

November 30 , 6:37 pm

Equipment

Canon 40D, 85mm, ISO 3200, Exposure, 1.6 seconds

Description

Got a pretty image of the Venus Jupiter and Lunar conjunction, Venus with a cool halo.
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