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Celestial Scenes
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PhotographerSean Scott WalkerLocationFernleyDate10 may, 2012 at aprox 11amEquipmentLunt LS60THaDS50/B1200FTPT with a Televue 4x powermate and an Imaging Source DMK 51AU02.AS on a Celestron ASGT CG-5.DescriptionThis is a zoomed in picture of NOAA region 11476. This is my first picture taken using Televue's 4x powermate. I took 300 frames with my DMK51 and stacked the best 200 frames. |
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PhotographerHoward TrottierLocationCabin in the Sky Observatory, South Okanagan, British Columbia, CanadaDateApril 20-22 2012EquipmentTelescope: PlaneWave Instruments CDK17, with a focal reducer at f/4.5. Mount: Paramount ME. Camera: SBIG STL-4020M. Image capture: TheSkyX, MaxIm DL, and FocusMax. Exposures: 8 hours total, 240 minutes luminance (unbinned), and 80 minutes in each of red, green and blue (2x2 binning). Ten-minute subframes in all channels. Image scale: 22' on the longest side, 0.78" unbinned pixel size. Image Processing: PixInsight with CCDInspector.DescriptionThis is galaxy season, and for my first opportunity to go hunting this year, I went after M109, because of the big bar that anchors its spiral arms! Is this the best of the barred spirals, for both brightness and the prominence of the bar? Either way, it's a fascinating object! |
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PhotographerDave LiuLocationLeyburn, Queensland, AustraliaDate2 am, 22-Apr-2012Equipment19x 181 sec (57 mins total), f/2.8, ISO 800 subs taken with a stock Canon 5DmkII + 24 mm f/1.4L II mounted on an Astrotrac equatorial mount.DescriptionImaging during a night of heavy fog resulted in this dreamy image of the galactic centre of the Milky Way. The constellations Scorpius, Ophiuchus, Sagittarius, and Corona Australis are prominently featured due to their abnormally large star halos due to the fog. |
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PhotographerIl-young, SeoLocationKoreaDate2012-04-27EquipmentTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 900s * 6 picDescriptionTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 900s * 6 pic Test for ADT MC200GE mount. Mount has good perfomance!! And FLT110 is good, also. |
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Photographermohammadreza ghorbanzadeLocationiran,babolDate2012/04/18Equipmentfuji film finepix s4000DescriptionMoon rising over the city. |
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PhotographerDerek SantiagoLocationMorristown, NJ USADate4/13 - 4/16/2012EquipmentImaging CCD: QSI 540 WSG Guiding CCD: SX Lodestar Imaging Scope: Meade 10" LX200R at f/6.7 Filters: Astrodon 5nm Ha,LRGBDescriptionM51 or the Whirlpool Galaxy in Canis Venatici may be the most famous of interacting galaxies. The larger galaxy NGC 5194 seems about to canabalize NGC 5195. The active star forming knots in the arms of NGC 5194 are brought out by exposure through a hydrogen alpha filter. |
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Photographerasadolah ghamarinezhadLocationVayvay mountain,Zanjan,IranDate2012/4/19EquipmentCanon 60D camera 100-400 canon lens without any tripod and mount without any filterDescriptionObserve Sunspots on the sun disk without filters |
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PhotographerWill DavisLocationTucson, ArizonaDate05:23 P.M. MST, 01-19-2012EquipmentMeade Saturn DS114EC newtonian reflector, fitted with an Orion 5.81" full aperture solar glass filter, and a Meade 40mm super plössl combined with a Antares 2x barlow lens. Taken with a Olympus C-750 UZ. 1/650 second, at f/2.8, ISO 100. Cropped in Adobe Photoshop CS.DescriptionI managed to get out just a little before sunset to observe, and as I was taking pictures, I suddenly saw a little airplane fly in front of the solar disk through the camera's viewfinder. I had no intentions of capturing this scene, I was just lucky enough to be taking a shot at the exact moment it appeared. |
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PhotographerIl-young, SeoLocationKoreaDate2012-04-27EquipmentTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 600s * 7 picDescriptionTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 900s * 6 pic Test for ADT MC200GE mount. Mount has good perfomance!! And FLT110 is good, also. |
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PhotographerIl-young, SeoLocationKoreaDate2012-04-27EquipmentTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 900s * 6 picDescriptionTelescope - WilliamOptics FLT110 (F7) Mount - ADT MorningCalm 200GE (Astrodreamtech, korea) CCD - SBIG ST2000XCM Guide - ST2000XCM self-guider Exposure : -20C , 900s * 6 pic Test for ADT MC200GE mount. Mount has good perfomance!! And FLT110 is good, also. |
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