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Photographer

Jason Higley

Location

Central Florida, my driveway

Date

November 4, 2007

Equipment

Criterion RV-6 (a 6" Newtonian), Kodak EasyShare Z730 (a point-n-shoot/family camera) in video mode, 2583 frames stacked in Registax 4, shot afocally through a 12.5 mm Celestron eyepiece and a 2x apo Ultima barlow. NO EXTERNAL COMPUTER WAS PRESENT TO RECORD THIS SHOT!

Description

Saturn through a 6" reflector, no computer was present to record this shot, only the Kodak camera in video mode.
 

Photographer

Jorge Carlos Sousa

E-mail

jcvcs@clix.pt

Location

Algarve - Portugal

Date

22-08-2007 - 19:12

Equipment

Pleasant Sunset in famous Ancão beach – Algarve CANON EOS Digital Rebel Lens 70.0 - 300.0mm Focal Length 300.0mm

Description

Pleasant Sunset in famous Ancão beach – Algarve
 

Photographer

Marco Casonato

E-mail

mrxas@yahoo.com

Location

Genoa, Italy

Date

27/10 & 01/11 , 23:30 & 22:30 TU

Equipment

Celestron C9.25 w/RC f:6,3, Losmandy GM-8 Nikon D70

Description

Moon and 17P/Holmes : same scale and picture to compare the comet size with a well known object ...
 

Photographer

Jonathan Wheatley

Location

Berkeley Hills, CA

Date

2007 Nov 4th, 5:15pm PST

Equipment

Canon TX1, 65mm f5.6

Description

Atmospheric layers over the Pacific Ocean fragment the sun as it sets behind the Golden Gate Bridge and Alcatraz Island, at left.
 

Photographer

Eric Jacob

E-mail

ericjacob613@yahoo.com

Location

Santa Barbara CA

Date

September 2007

Equipment

Celestron C102 refractor (500mm f/5). CG5 mount. Unmodded Canon XTI. Broadband LPR filter. TC80N3 timer.

Description

134 unguided exposures of 90 seconds and 2 minutes. Dark frame subtracted and adaptive stacked in Nebulosity. Processed in Photoshop CS.
 

Photographer

Mark Sibole

Location

Fife Lake Michigan

Date

Nov 1 2007

Equipment

Meade 80 mm APO piggybacked on a Meade LX200R. Meade DSI PRO III

Description

Here is an image of M45. It has 1.5 hours of luminance and 40 minutes per color channel using 4 minute sub frames The full size image can be viewed here http://astronomy.qteaser.com/images/m45Novredo.jpg
 

Photographer

Arpad Padanyi

E-mail

arpad.padanyi@chello.hu

Location

Nagykovacsi/Hungary

Date

november 1, 2007, 18:52 UT

Equipment

Suparapo 130/F7 SBIG ST2K exp.:20sec

Description

Comet Holmes and background stars
 

Photographer

Chris Simmons

Location

Newbury Park, Ca

Date

11/2/07 11:00 pm

Equipment

Tak TOA-130 SBIG 2000XCM Tak EM-200

Description

Comet Holmes, if you look close you can see two cores or at least I can in the High res original.
 

Photographer

Les Bildy

Location

Sarasota, FL, USA

Date

November 4, 2007, 1:34 EST

Equipment

18" Starmaster Dob @f/25 Lumenera SKYnyx 2-1C

Description

12.5" Mars showing Solis Lacus
 

Photographer

Owe Dahren

Location

Kumla Sweden

Date

03-11-23.30

Equipment

Pentax istD* camera wirh 400 mm lens at f:6.3. Exposure 67 at 200 ASA

Description

Comet Holmes as it appeared at 11.30 pm after a cloudy evening. Imaged with a home made tracker and a standard digital SLR camera.
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