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Photographer

B.Brence

Location

Vancouver, WA

Date

5/7/07

Equipment

Celestron NexStar 4se, Meade DSI, 3x Barlow

Description

Processed in Registax 4, Paint Shop Pro, Photo XI
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

De Soto, Kansas, USA

Date

May 20, 2007

Equipment

This is a 1 second exposure with a 50mm Nikkor lens @ f/4 on a Canon EOS Rebel XTi body at ISO 800. Flash used during exposure.

Description

Here you see the moon with Gemini's twin stars of Pollux and Castor directly to the left, and Venus tucked into the lowest gap between the tree branches.
 

Photographer

Mark Sibole

Location

fife Lake Mi.

Date

May 9, 2007

Equipment

Meade 80 mm APO Meade DSI PRO II

Description

This is a LRGB image of NGC 4038 It has 128 minutes of Luminance data and 60 minutes per color channel. This target sits low in my horizon so it tool a few good nights to capture all of the required data.
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

Kansas City, Missouri, USA

Date

May 19, 2007

Equipment

This is a 1 second exposure with a 135mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6 on a Canon EOS Rebel XTi body at ISO 100.

Description

Here you see the grand pair above the satellite-like sculpture adorning the top of Bartle Hall in downtown KCMO.
 

Photographer

Pierre Arpin

E-mail

parpin@videotron.ca

Location

Longueuil, Québec, Canada

Date

May 20th 2007 : 02:30 UT

Equipment

I took the picture with a Nikon D50 DSLR with a 50 mm normal objective mounted on a tripod. Exposure time 1 sec at ISO 800

Description

The picture have been taken in a local aprk 7 km from downtown Montreal. That the reason the clouds look so bright.
 

Photographer

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering, Ohio

Date

May 19 at 4h UT

Equipment

Meade DSI Pro on an Orion StarBlast (imaging version) side-by-side with a DSI on another StarBlast (original version) driven my an LXD75

Description

This image of Comet Lovejoy (C/2007 E2) was taken on May 19 at 4h UT with a DSI Pro (L:32x30sec) at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (imaging version) and a DSI (RGB:16x60sec) 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

Linda Stalnaker

Location

Teays Valley, WV

Date

05-19-2007 at about 2030

Equipment

I used a Canon 20D with a 75-300mm lens

Description

Venus paired up with the crescent Moon for a spectacular twilight meeting.
 

Photographer

Miguel Claro

E-mail

miguelclaro@sapo.pt

Location

Corroios - In Portugal

Date

18/04/07 at 21h00. Local time from

Equipment

HP Photosmart 850. Auto mode.

Description

Earthshine when the moon was only one day.
 

Photographer

dietmar hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

Stargazer Private Observatory

Date

23-4-07

Equipment

9" TMB Apo f/22,5 - 2,5 Powermate DMK 21F04

Description

Date: 23.4.2007 - seeing 4-5/10; transp. 7/10 Scope: 9" TMB Apo f/ 22,5 (2,5 TV PM) CCD: DMK 21f04 @30 fps Software: Registax 4 Processing: postprocess. PS CS2 further info here: http://stargazer.christelhager.info/sonic/index.html
 

Photographer

Robert Horton

E-mail

stargazerbob@aol.com

Location

White Mountain, CA

Date

June 2002

Equipment

Takahashi FC100, F5.6 reducer, 800 Fuji film

Description

Here is a close up shot of Antares and M4, taken with a Takahashi FC100, taken the old fashion way - with film! This is a one hour exposure using Fuji 800, from a dark location with the Bristle Cone Pine Forest of White Mountain, CA. Compare this telescopic shot to my wide field one using a piggybacked medium format camera.
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