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PhotographerLaurent LavederLocationMonts d'Arrée, Bretagne, FranceDate09/26/06EquipmentCanon 350D DSLR camera and Sigma 10-20 mm lens at 10 mm f/4.0. 2 minute exposure at ISO 800 in RAW mode.DescriptionJust at dawn, the zodiacal light is almost vertical when viewed from France. Above, the horizon, it extend from Leo into Gemini. Saturn is at upper right, near M 44, the Beehive cluster. See an animation of the rising zodiacal light in this page: http://www.photoastronomique.net/photo_us.php?nom=060926_2168 |
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PhotographerAndrey BatchvarovLocationTable Mauntain, WADate29 Sep 2006EquipmentOrion StarShoot CCD camera with an Orion ST80 refractor operating at f/3. Autoguiding with LX200 and MEADE DSI Color camera. Total exposure time 15 minutes.DescriptionThe bright star is Zeta Orionis, with B 33, the Horse Head Nebula, to its upper right.. At the lower middle is NGC 2024, the Flame Nebula. The bright ring to the lower right of B 33 is an atrifact. |
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PhotographerPhilip GoodLocationDenver, CODateSeptember 25-29, 2006EquipmentStellarvue SV115 refractor at f/5.6 on a Takahashi EM200 Temma-2 German equatorial mount. SBIG ST2000XM CCD camera with Astrodon 6nm hydrogen-alpha filter and RGB filtersDescriptionNGC 281 is a busy workshop of star formation. Prominent features include a small open cluster of stars, diffuse emission nebula, and dark lanes of obscuring gas and dust. The dust lanes visible below center are likely homes of star formation. Particularly striking are the dark Bok globules visible against the bright nebula. The NGC 281 system, dubbed the Pacman nebula for its overall shape, lies about 10,000 light years distant. |
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PhotographerP-M HedénLocationVallentuna, SwedenDateFebruary, 2006Equipment20mm objective, Practika SLR camera. Recorded on Kodak 100VS film.DescriptionGoing home after work I saw this fantastic Solar halo. I hurried home to get my camera and managed to photograph it exactly when a condensation trail from an airplane went through it. |
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PhotographerrojgarLocationArbil, Iraqi KurdistanDateMarch 8, 2006, 10:30 pm.Equipmentit has been taken with 50mm lens Minolta camera with a 50 millimeter lens, ISO 400 Konica film, 20 secomd exposureDescriptionMilkyway photo over Safin mountains in Arbil. |
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PhotographerrojgarLocationArbil, Iraqi KurdistanDateMarch 8, 2006, 4:15 am.EquipmentMinolta camera with 50mm lens, ISO 400 Konica film, 20 second exposure.DescriptionOrion leaps into the evening sky. |
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PhotographerFilippo CiferriLocationRome, ItalyDateAugust 24 thru 28, 2006EquipmentVixen Visac f/9 reflector on a Celestron CGE mount, SBIG ST-10XME CCD camera with CFW-8A filter wheel.DescriptionThe image was taken on 4 nights, 3 for the Ha luminance and one for the color exposures. An experiment from a heavily light polluted location in Rome, Italy. |
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PhotographerGiuseppe MenardiLocationCortina d'Ampezzo (Dolomites) ItalyDateNovember 20, 2003EquipmentCanon EOS D60 digital SLR with a Sigma 15 millimeter lens at f/2.8DescriptionThe most impressive aurora that I've never seen! A 360° view of this spectacular event over the Dolomites in Northern Italy. |
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PhotographerMila ZinkovaLocationSan Francisco, CADateAugust 2006 2 p.m.EquipmentCanon XT digital camera with an 8 millimeter fisheye lensDescriptionBeautiful huge solar coronae that was produced by the fog trying to escape the North Tower of Golden Gate Bridge. |
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PhotographerY.Pavan Kumar SarmaLocationAurangabad, IndiaDate11 september 2006, Time:- 00h 45min (IST) +5.5 UTEquipmentCelestron Nexstar 4GT maksutov-cassegrain with a Celestron Neximage webcam, processed with Registax 3.0DescriptionWhimsical craters on our Moon. |
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