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Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

March 28, 2008

Equipment

APM/TMB 130/780 Refractor with AP field flattener Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod

Description

First light with my new AP Mach1GTO Mount. Amazing sharp detail with good guiding. I have reprocessed this image about 50 times until I am finally happy with it.
 

Photographer

Eduardo Alamilla

E-mail

hola_my_friend@hotmail.com

Location

Saltillo, Coahuila, Mexico.

Date

February/02/2008.

Equipment

Meade Schmidt Cassegrain 14 inch LX200GPS with Meade focal reducer f/3.3. Camera: Meade DSI Pro II.

Description

Image processing: Meade Envisage, AIP4WIN Local Adapatative Sharpening filter, false color with Meade Image processing software. Exposure time: 90 min.
 

Photographer

Jim Lafferty

E-mail

shogun000@netzero.com

Location

Redlands, California

Date

December 11, 2007 10pm

Equipment

FSQ106N Takahashi NJP Temma 2 mount ST2000xm camera with Astrodon filters

Description

An unusual look at the Great Nebula in Orion using Ha, SII, and OIII filters. 32 minutes exposure in each filter, unbinned.
 

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

April 5, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod 5x180sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 AP Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M3, one of the largest and brightest globulars in the sky makes a wonderful visual and photographic object. It is also a very colorful globular.
 

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

April 5, 2008

Equipment

Canon 350D Hap Griffin Baader Mod 22x180sec at iso 1600 30 Darks/Flats/Bias Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63 AP Mach1GTO Mount

Description

M100 in Coma Berenices is a member of the Virgo Galaxy Cluster. It is a very bright and photogenic galaxy that is often overlooked by observers.
 

Photographer

Laurent Laveder

E-mail

laurent.laveder@laposte.net

Location

Le Guilvinec, Bretagne, France

Date

April 6, 2008, 19:33 UT

Equipment

Canon 30D + Sigma 100-300 EX on a tripod. 1/4 s, f/8 at 400 ISO.

Description

Here a very slim crescent Moon. I was able to spot it with binoculars and catch it with a tele-lens, through a hole in the clouds. I was very lucky. Click here to see an animation
 

Photographer

Antonios Pantelidis

E-mail

orion42@otenet.gr

Location

Florina, Greece

Date

04/07/2008

Equipment

Nikn D70, tripod, 18-70mm lens

Description

The beautiful crescent moon.
 

Photographer

Jay Edwards

Location

Maine, NY

Date

04/08/2008

Equipment

Canon Digital Rebel XT

Description

What a beautiful site. The crescent moon and dozens of stars filled the field of view in 15 x 70 binoculars.
 

Photographer

Boris Huna

Location

N.M.n.V.

Date

Nov 26th 2007, 21:18UT

Equipment

Refractor Celestron C102HD, NexImage camera

Description

According the forecast on the www.calsky.com I have tried to catch the ISS "above" the Moon. FOV was set a little bit out of center, that´s why the whole ISS has appeared only on one frame from cca 90 secondes record. The frame was processed in Registax 4
 

Photographer

Paolo Julio Gabelli

E-mail

administrator@pjultra.it

Location

Parma - Italy

Date

December

Equipment

Astro-Physics 155 Starfire EDT Apo Refractor, Takahashi FS-152NSV fluorite Apo Refractor, Takahashi CN-212, Magzero MZ-5c CMOS Camera, Takahashi EM-200 Mount

Description

The Mars Opposition 2007 followed in different nights by Paolo Julio Gabelli, Claudio Carbognani, Alberto Zinelli, Davide Fava and Marco Amoretti
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