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Photographer

Michael Karrer

E-mail

mkarrer@gmx.at

Location

St. Radegund / Austria

Date

2007-08-15, 09:00 UT

Equipment

175/1400 mm TMB Refractor at f = 5.3 m, Lumenera SKYnyx 2-1m

Description

Planets at extreme positions: Venus three days before inferior conjunction, Mercury at superior conjunction. Average seeing with few fair moments, spots on Mercury may not be real?
 

Photographer

Jim Windlinger

E-mail

jim@windlinger.net

Location

Anza, California

Date

6-17-2006

Equipment

SBIG STL-11000 Camera, FLI PDF focuser, Nikon 85mm f/1.8 camera lens at f/5.6, Homemade GEM.

Description

This is the Dark Horse Nebula in Ophiuchus also known as the Pipe nebula. The photo also includes the colorful nebulosity around Antares in Scorpius.
 

Photographer

Matija Pozojevic

Location

Petrova Gora (Croatia)

Date

August 15th, 2007

Equipment

Telescope: Celestron C10-N f/4.7 (with Baader comma corrector) Camera: Modified Canon 300D Mount: SkyWatcher EQ-6 Guiding: Manually, SkyWatcher ED80, 2x Barlow + Baader 12.5mm microguide eyepiece Exposures: 11 x 420 sec @ ISO 800 Processing: DeepSkyStacker, PixInsight, PS CS

Description

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Photographer

Antonio Pascarella

E-mail

apascarella@pascarellas.com

Location

East Haven, CT

Date

July 6 - 22:09

Equipment

Telescope: Orion ED80 Camera: Canon Rebel XT Exposures: 20x60 seconds, ISO 800 Stacked with DeepSkyStacker Processed with PhotoShop CS
 

Photographer

John Stetson

E-mail

jstetson@maine.rr.com

Location

Scarborough, Maine

Date

August, 14, 2007

Equipment

webcam and a refractor with a solar filter

Description

This is a composite of seventeen images of the ISS and the Space Shuttle transiting the sun. George Whitney, Rob Burgess, and Kirk Rogers of the Southern Maine Astronomers were present for this event.
 

Photographer

Gain Lee

E-mail

gainlee@aol.com

Location

Huddersfield, UK

Date

13 August 2007, 00.15 UT

Equipment

Canon EOS 5D DSLR with EF 15mm f2.8 fish-eye lens on a fixed tripod

Description

A montage of the brighter Perseids taken over a 2 hour period from my heavily light polluted backyard.
 

Photographer

P-M Hedén

E-mail

clearskies@bostream.nu

Location

Riala, Sweden

Date

20007-08-14 21.46.51UT

Equipment

20mm Sigma objective, Canon Digital Rebel XT on a CG-5 mount

Description

A lovely night with around 80 Perseids (15 fireballs) and some Kappa Cygnids meteors during a two hours session. On this photo you can see two Perseids and one Kappa Cygnid meteor striking through the MilkyWay.
 

Photographer

Alex Conu

E-mail

alex.conu@gmail.com

Location

Pauleasca, Romania

Date

July 12, 2007

Equipment

Canon EOS 5D with Canon EF 17-40 f/4L at 17/5, 2x160s at ISO 1600. Manually guided with a Vixen 60/900 refractor on a motorized EQ5 mount.

Description

Wide field image of the Summer Milky Way: from Sagittarius to Cepheus.
 

Photographer

Curt Renz

E-mail

curt@curtrenz.com

Location

Arlington Heights, Illinois

Date

2007 JUL 29 at 20:33 CDT

Equipment

Sony Cyber-shot DSC F717 digital camera on tripod

Description

Photo of rising Full Moon was take 8 minutes after moonrise and 18 minutes after sunset. The Moon’s shape and color were noticeably distorted by atmospheric refraction and Rayleigh scattering at its low altitude. There was a slight haze along the horizon. The lights are from a village baseball field.
 

Photographer

Peter W. O'Brien

Location

Derry NH

Date

July 2007

Equipment

DSI pro II behind homebuilt 6" f1.8 astrograph with 6"full aperture 13nm H-alpha filter

Description

6 frame mosaic,each frame 2min x 20. All taken with bright moon and poor sky
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