Photo Gallery:
Note: All images in this gallery are copyrighted by the photographers and may not be
reused in any form without their permission.
Celestial Scenes
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PhotographerKirk DuBoseLocationTrillium Lake, Mt Hood, OregonDateAugust 11th, 2012EquipmentNikon D700 Nikkor 24mm 2.8 aisDescriptionThe Milkyway rises above Trillium Lake during the New Moon of August, 2012. |
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PhotographerAlex ConuLocationValea Frumoasei, RomaniaDateAugust 15th 2012EquipmentCamera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Lens: Samyiang 8 f/3.5 Exposure: 1251 s Aperture: 5.6 ISO: 200DescriptionAstronomers observing the skies at one of Romania's darkest sites. |
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PhotographerAlex ConuLocationValea Frumoasei, RomaniaDateAugust 16th 2012EquipmentCamera: Canon EOS 5D Mark III Telescope: Skywatcher 80ED Exposure: 16 x 600s + 4 x 300s + 4 x 100s + 4 x 60s + 1 x 30s + 1 x 15s Aperture: 7.5 ISO: 800DescriptionMy first serious try at the Andromeda Galaxy. Shot from a very dark site in the Carpathians. |
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Photographermohammadreza ghorbanzadeLocationiran,babolDate2012/09/22Equipmentfuji film finepix s4000 i take 6 image and make with ptgui each image 6 sec,iso=200,f/3.6Descriptionmoon on the cloud |
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PhotographerJoe LopinotLocationCarlyle Lake, ILDateSeptember 22, 2012 12:30 - 2:00 AMEquipmentOrion Atlas EQ Astro-Tech 106 Refractor Canon Rebel 450D (unmodified)DescriptionImage of the Helix Nebula is 17 x 5 min exposures at ISO 400 with Canon 450D, AT106 on the Atlas. Manually guided with a AT65 piggybacked on the 106. Images stacked and calibrated (15 dark frames, 15 flat frames) with Maxim DL, processed with Photoshop CS5, Noise Ninja and GradientXTerminator. Image captured at Tamalco Boat Ramp on Carlyle Lake, in southern IL about 50 miles east of St. Louis, MO. Excellent dark site for the River Bend Astronomy Club. Thank you for your kind consideration. |
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PhotographerAmirali MomeniLocationIranDatesptember 2011EquipmentCanon eos 60D + Canon 18-135Descriptioniridium satellite in the milky way |
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PhotographerJJ ModigLocationLenexa, KSDateSeptember 29, 2012 at 11:00 pmEquipmentCanon 300d with Vivitar 28mm lens. Mosaic of 4 pictures.DescriptionA nice moon halo came along with this year's Harvest Moon. Is is seen here rising behind a maple tree in my backyard. |
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PhotographerThomas WalkerLocationT.O.M.S. Observatory, Iuka, MSDate22 Sept 2012 1930CDT/0030 UTCEquipmentTelescope: TMB 130SS f/7 APO Camera: Imaging Source (IS) DBK-41 Mount: Celestron CGEMDescriptionImage of the moon at first quarter. Taken from Top of Mississippi Skies Observatory, 35.0° N - 88.3° W near Pickwick Lake on 22 Sep 2012. Coincidentally, both the Lunar X and the Lunar V are both visible. Image consists of a mosaic of 6 images, each 250 (of 1000) AVI sub-images stacked in Registax 6 and the output combined in PhotoShop CS3. Post processing consisted only of minimal High Pass filtering. Telescope is a TMB-130SS at F/7 and camera is an IS-DBK 41. Tom Walker |
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PhotographerTed RaffertyLocationUnited StatesDateSeptember 2012EquipmentOrion 10-inch f/4.7 reflector using an SBIG ST-2000XM imager on a Losmandy G11 mount. Guiding using an Orion ST80 using an DSI Pro 2 imager.DescriptionHubble palette image of NGC7635 with LRGB images used to colorize the stars. Exposures were 900s 1x1 binned for the SII, Ha, and OIII filters and 480s 1x1 binned for the L, 300s 2x2 binned for the R and G, and 480s 2x2 binned for the B. The exposures were captured using Nebulosity 2 and guiding using PHD. Image processing using AIP4WIN, DeepSkyStacker, Nebulosity 2, PhotoShop, and PixInsight LE. |
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PhotographerTommy Lim KWLocationBali, IndonesiaDate14.09.2012 7:54PMEquipmentPentax K5, Sigma 10-20mm f/4-5.6 and Pentax O-GPS1 on photo tripod.Description5-minutes exposure towards the center of the milky way. |
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