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Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

Jefferson Co., Kansas, USA.

Date

June 17, 2007, 9:52 pm CDT

Equipment

This is a 15 second exposure with a 135mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6 on a Canon Rebel XTi body at ISO 100.

Description

In spite of high clouds, I was able to image the Beehive Cluster (Messier 44 in Cancer) between Venus and the waxing crescent moon.
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

Jefferson Co., Kansas, USA.

Date

June 17, 2007, 9:56 pm, CDT.

Equipment

This is a 30 second exposure with a 135mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6 on a Canon Rebel XTi body at ISO 100.

Description

The high clouds gave up nice halos around the moon and Venus.
 

Photographer

Pouria Nazemi

E-mail

pnazemi@gmail.com

Location

Sisangan Jungles - North of Iran

Date

2007-05-27

Equipment

Canon EOS-350D

Description

At meddle of ancient jungles in north of Iran, where you can hear voice of wild bears and songs of birds. Moon was shining over jungles in a very warm afternoon to complete the glory of this sense.
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

My back deck near De Soto, KS, USA.

Date

2002

Equipment

This is a 3 minute exposure with a 16mm all-sky camera @ f/4 on Kodak E100 VS (120 format).

Description

Here is an intense lunar halo, appearing as an unnerving eye in the sky. Mr. Moon, I'm ready for my close-up!
 

Photographer

Mark Sibole

Location

Fife Lake Mi

Date

June 5 2007

Equipment

Meade DSI PRO II 150 mm Camera lens piggybacked on a Meade LX200R 10 inch

Description

This is a very nice area in Cygnus not imaged very much. It contains dust lanes,Reflection nebula and emission nebula. This has 120 minutes of Ha data and 60 minutes per color channel.
 

Photographer

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering. Ohio

Date

6/10/07 6h UT

Equipment

Meade DSI Pro on an Orion StarBlast (imaging version), Meade DSI on a second Orion StarBlast (original version)

Description

This image of M20 was taken with a DSI Pro (L:59x30sec) at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (imaging version) and a DSI (RGB:19x60sec) at the prime focus of second StarBlast (original version) mounted side-by-side on a Meade LXD75. The source images were saved as FITS3P combined offline in drizzle. Drizzle was also used to convert the FITS3P from the DSI to a BMP. The LRGB was then assembled in Photoshop.
 

Photographer

Giovanni Benintende

Location

Nebrodi Mounts, Italy

Date

10-11 May 2007

Equipment

Takahashi FSQ-106 / Finger Lakes ProLine 16803 / Astro-Physics 1200 GTO.

Description

The image represents the best multi-color area of the sky. RGB 100:100:100. Syntetic luminance by sum of RGB, plus 60 minutes of h-alpha luminance for emphasizing some of hidrogen excited nebulae.
 

Photographer

Giovanni Benintende

Location

Nebrodi Mounts, Italy

Date

10-11-19 May 2007

Equipment

Takahashi BRC-250 / Takahashi FSQ-106 / Finger Lakes ProLine 16803 / AstroPhysics 1200 GTO

Description

This image remembers me the flight of a medieval dragons air battle. Actually it represents the dust & gas nebular complex in the sky area centered between Antares and Rho Ophiuchi, named NGC 4603 and the central brighter VdB 105. Luminance 180 minutes acquired with BRC-250, RGB is a detail of a previous 300 minutes RGB image, took with FSQ-106
 

Photographer

Dag Sola Orsic

E-mail

dag@dag-orsic.com

Location

Croatia, island of Dugi Otok, village Luka

Date

09.06.2007. 21:23

Equipment

Canon 1D MarkII with a zoom lens 17-40mm @ 21mm, fixed on a tripod. f/ 5.6 1 min ISO 800

Description

I was struck with the beauty of this sceene. Sunset with Venus and some bright stars reflections on the sea surface. Silhouettes of distant islands and lighthouses lights, added to the atmosphere of the moment. I enhenced slightly in Photoshop the visibility of the reflected stars and nothing else.
 

Photographer

Kiran Chakravarti

Location

England, United Kingdom

Date

Unknown

Equipment

Meade ETX 90-EC, Phillips Toucam Pro webcam, stack of 200 frames.

Description

This photo shows the crater Langrenus. Also visible are the two messeir craters. Note the ray system emanating from langrenus. Langrenus is 132km in diameter and 2.7km deep.
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