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Celestial Scenes
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PhotographerMark SiboleLocationFife Lake , MichiganDate7-21-2006EquipmentImaging Telescope Meade ETX 125 at F/7 Imaging camera Meade DSI PRO II All piggybacked on the Meade LX200R 10 inch Autoguided with the DSI PRODescriptionHere is an image of a nice galaxy group in Draco. The 3 mail galaxys are NGC 5981 NGC 5982 and NGC 5985 There are also several other smaller galaxys visible in this image. This was 120 minutes of luminance exposure and 40 minutes per color channel. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationGove Co., Kansas, USADateMarch 2, 1994EquipmentThis was made with a 50mm lens and a technique I created in July of 1982. First, the rock wall was focused on and the lens set @ f/16. The shutter was opened and the wall rendered with an electronic flash. Then, with the shutter still open, the focus was shifted to infinity, and the lens opened up to f/2.8 for the remainder of the 15 minute exposure.DescriptionHere you see star trails wheeling above one of the chalk pyramids at Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark. In the small window is Polaris and several fainter attendant stars. |
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PhotographerJohn StetsonLocationFalmouth, MaineDateJan. 28, 29, 31, and Feb. 3,4,5EquipmentLumenera 2-0 webcam, 90mm solar filterDescriptionA stretch of favorable weather made it possible to observe and capture images of 940 from the eastern limb to the western limb. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationCimarron Co., Oklahoma, USADateMidnight on Oct. 21, 2001EquipmentThis is a 30 minute exposure with an all-sky camera, a 16mm lens @ f/4 on a Mamiya back, loaded with Fuji Provia 400F pushed to ISO 800. The foreground was illuminated with a red-filtered electronic flash and a red flashlight.DescriptionFramed by the Miky Way and airglow, the Gegenschein - subtle sentinel of the midnight meridian - floats like a vapor above the 2001 Okie-Tex Star Party. The Gegenschein, German for counterglow, is caused by sunlight reflecting off of dust in the ecliptic plane. It is always exactly 180 degrees from the sun, and is actually an enlarged and brighter portion of the zodiacal band which can be seen from very dark skies when airglow is at a minimum. The dust particles are fully lit at opposition, and that is why the zodiacal band is brighter and larger. The zodiacal light is part of the same overall phenomenon, and best seen near the sun in either the evening or morning during the spring and fall respectively in the northern hemisphere, and is the brightest due to solar proximity. The above is copyrighted Doug Zubenel. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationGove Co., Kansas, USADateLate March, 1997EquipmentThis is a 20 minute exposure with a 16mm fish-eye lens @ f/5.6 on Fuji Super G 800 Plus.DescriptionHere is the zodiacal light and comet Hale-Bopp overspread by the Milky Way at Monument Rocks National Natural Landmark. |
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PhotographerDoug ZubenelLocationLinn Co., Kansas, USADateWinter, 2005EquipmentThis is a 20 minute exposure with a 50mm lens @ f/5.6 on a Mamiya back loaded with Kodak E200 pushed to ISA 1600.DescriptionHere is the heavenly Question Mark as it would appear to the eye of the camera on a summer's evening from the southern hemisphere looking north. This asterism is comprised of Barnard's Loop and the circular cloud of hydrogen surrounding Meissa (Lambda Orionis). |
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PhotographerJohn L. GrahamLocationKettering, OhioDate2/6/07 2h UTEquipmentOrion StarBlast (original), Meade DSI, Meade LXD75DescriptionThis is image of NGC2266 in Gemini was taken with a Meade DSI at the prime focus of an Orion StarBlast (original) on and LXD75. The luminance data (40x30sec) was taken using the color sharp model while the color data (40x30sec) was taken using the color soft model. All of the source images were saved as FITS3P, aligned and combined in drizzle. Drizzle was also used to save the color data as a BMP. The luminance and color data were combined in Photoshop. |
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PhotographerDietmar HagerLocationStargazer private observatory near Linz, AustriaDate4-06Equipment9" TMB Apo f/9 @f/7 Tele Vue 0,8 reducer SXV H9C guided with 4" f/6,2 TMB Apo Mountegra - single arm fork mountDescriptionfirst light image of my 9" TMB Apo in a night of good transparency abd mediocre seeing. 43 minutes total exposure time. image acquisition with SX original software. color conversion, non linear strech in SX software. postprocessingin Pix Insight Le and Photoshop CS2. feel free to drop in at my webpage for more information. http://stargazer.christelhager.info/index.htm |
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PhotographerKelvin PhoonLocationSan Diego, CADate1/14 to 1/16/07Equipment4-panel mosaic, Meade DSI II-C through Celestron C80ED 80mm Refractor mounted on Meade LX90 8" SCT. 1 hour per color channel per panel. LRGB processing.DescriptionM45, the Pleiades Star Cluster in Taurus. This cluster of approximately 500 stars includes seven bright mythological sisters (center and right), daughters of Pleione and Atlas (far left). At a distance of 400 light years from earth, the cluster is passing through an area of interstellar dust and gas unrelated to its stars' formation but reflecting blue light from the young, hot stars. |
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PhotographerMark SiboleLocationFife Lake MichiganDate12/19/2006EquipmentMeade DSI PRO II Astronomic 13 nm Ha Filter 150 mm camera lensDescriptionThis is a 2 panel mosaic of this nebula Each panel consists of 75 minutes of Ha data captured with 15 minute sub frames |
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