Shop at Sky
Explore the Solar System with these globes from Sky!


home > community > gallery > celestial scenes
Photo Gallery:

Celestial Scenes

Note: All images in this gallery are copyrighted by the photographers and may not be reused in any form without their permission.

Photographer

Mila Zinkova

Location

San Francisco, California, USA

Date

04/20/07 Sunset

Equipment

Canon XTI, 18 mm Lens.

Description

Yesterday many halos were seen during the day. The day has ended with a beautiful pillar.
 

Photographer

Gagandeep Singh

E-mail

gaganspidey@gmail.com

Location

Chandigarh (INDIA)

Date

20th April, 2007 at 7:34:44 PM (GMT +5:50)

Equipment

Camera : Sony-Cybershot DSC S600 Focal Length : 7 mm F-Number : F/3.2 Exposure Time : 1/4 sec. ISO : 200 Flash : Not Used Megapixel : 6.0 Zoomed : No

Description

The conjunction of the waxing crescent moon and venus as seen through thin clouds during sunset. This is a cropped version [580x479], original image [2816x2112] can be found here : http://img158.imageshack.us/img158/976/moonvenusoriginalgn8.jpg
 

Photographer

Soeren Skovsaard

Location

jRoskilde, Denmark

Date

27th of march

Equipment

Meade ETX 90 RA and Logitech live ultra webcam. Twenty frame mosaic.

Description

Simply the Moon on a clear spring night.
 

Photographer

Ajay Talwar

E-mail

at@vsnl.com

Location

Siliserh, Rajasthan, India

Date

21st April 07, 0200 Hrs

Equipment

Nikon D70 camera, 102mm Skywatcher refractor (f/5) piggybacked on LX200 8"

Description

The animation shows the fast movement of Comet Lovejoy, 8.8 arc seconds in a minute. This animation spans 90 minutes
 

Photographer

Robert Horton

E-mail

stargazerbob@aol.com

Location

Scituate, RI

Date

April 19, 1988

Equipment

Celestron 6" f5 Newtonian

Description

A close pairing of Venus and the moon on April 19, 1988. These two will pair up again on May 19th of this year. Get ready!
 

Photographer

John L. Graham

Location

Kettering, Ohio

Date

4/17/07 3h UT

Equipment

Twin homebuilt 35mm f/4 cameras, Meade DSI and DSI Pro driven by an LXD75

Description

This wide field image of M51 was taken using a DSI Pro (L:50x30sec) and a DSI (RGB:20x60sec) fitted with twin 35mm f/4 achromats (the objectives from a 7x35 binocular) driven by an 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

Jonathan Wheatley

Location

Berkeley, CA, USA

Date

2007 Apr 17, 8:10pm PDT

Equipment

Canon digital rebel, 135mm lens at f/11

Description

The 18.5 hour old crescent moon sets in the WNW near San Francisco, CA. The thin crescent is uneven in brightness, but could be seen clearly in 8x42 binoculars in addition to this photo with a 135mm lens.
 

Photographer

Dietmar Hager

E-mail

dietmar.hager@maz.at

Location

Stargazer private observatory near Linz, Austria

Date

14.4.07

Equipment

9" TMB Apo f/9 SXV H16 astronomik filters

Description

Some decent seeing, even though it was not at its best. LRGB L=3 hours 6x9min R; 6x5min G; 6x10min B; (colors 2x2 bin) for further detail please visit: http://stargazer.christelhager.info/sonic/index.html
 

Photographer

Mark Sibole

Location

Fife Lake Mi.

Date

April 16, 2007

Equipment

Meade 80 mm APO Meade DSI PRO II

Description

Here is a shot of the M81-82 area showing the Integrated Flux Nebula. This was captured on a good seeing night here in Michigan. Total exposure time is colse to 3 hours.
 

Photographer

Bhalchnandra Pujari

Location

Trieste, Italy

Date

10 March 2007, 7pm (local time)

Equipment

Canon Powershot A400

Description

Taken on the sea shore of Trieste, Italy. The bright Venus can be seen on the background of fantastic sunset.
Search Photos for:


Sky Publishing, a New Track Media Company
Copyright © 2013 New Track Media. All rights reserved.
Sky & Telescope, Night Sky, and SkyandTelescope.com are registered trademarks of New Track Media