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Photographer

Alison Thomas

E-mail

ali_gata@paradise.net.nz

Location

Matamata, New Zealand

Date

19th January 2007, 8.38pm NZ time

Equipment

Fuji Finepix S5600, ISO 200, focal length 38.6, exposure time 3.000s,aperture f/3.5

Description

Photo was taken on the night that Comet McNaught was brightesy in New Zealand. Thought for a while that I was not going to see it, but as sun set there it was brightly shining in the southern sky. Boy was the wait worth it!
 

Photographer

Pepe Guerrero

E-mail

ppgro_ennvh@yahoo.com.mx

Location

Aguascalientes, Mexico

Date

03-05-2008 06:40 a.m.

Equipment

I used Kodak Digital Camera model C433 Easy share with mount. Mode digital telephoto (more than optical 3x), one sec. exposure and + 1.00 overexposure.I used automatic release for 2 sec. Original photo side: 2.1 mp.

Description

In the dawn of March 5, 2008 (06:40 a.m.), before the concealment of Venus for the Moon, in the roof of my house in Aguascalientes, I took the photo of the conjunction of Mercury, Moon and Venus. A big visual spectacle! Marvelous! Mercury with weak light is lightly above and to the left of a diminishing Moon. Below to the left of the Moon, Venus shines with intensity.
 

Photographer

Manuel Rodriguez Huerta

E-mail

manuelrh@cybercable.net.mx

Location

Aguascalientes, Ags. Mexico.

Date

March 5, 2008 21h26m UT

Equipment

Refractor telescope Orion ST 80mm, 400mm fl & 0.5 focal reducer, 25 mm eyepice, Sony DSC-W100 camera, afocal projection. All Piggy Backed over a 1200 mm fl telescope with ecuatorial mount.

Description

Venus Occultation (Reappearence)
 

Photographer

Doug Zubenel

E-mail

nzubenel@kc.rr.com

Location

Wabaunsee Co., Kansas, USA.

Date

March 8, 2008, ~ 8:00pm, CST

Equipment

Hutech modified Canon Rebel XTi with a 300mm Nikkor lens @ f/5.6, 3 exposures totalling 676 seconds at ISO 800. Stacked with MaxIm DL.

Description

Here is tenacious comet Holmes stopping off San Francisco for some seafood at Scoma's.
 

Photographer

thomas backer

E-mail

tom@tombacker.com

Location

Auburn CA, USA

Date

12-13-2007, 9:14pm

Equipment

Canon 5D, 50mm f/1.4 lens @ f/1.4, ISO 1600, 15 sec exposure. No mount, (hence the blur).

Description

I was hoping to get a meteor from the Geminids near the comet and fortunately I did. It is faint, but still I think looks pretty cool. And even better, double cluster is in the photo as well!
 

Photographer

Manuel Rodriguez Huerta

E-mail

manuelrh@cybercable.net.mx

Location

Aguascalientes, Mexico.

Date

March 5, 2008, 09h 26 m UT

Equipment

Refractor telescope Orion ST 80mm, 400mm fl & 0.5 focal reducer, 25 mm eyepice, Sony DSC-W100 camera, afocal projection. All Piggy Backed over a 1200 mm fl telescope with ecuatorial mount.

Description

Venus reappearence
 

Photographer

Mike Cooke

Location

Saint Helens, OR

Date

7:23

Equipment

Nikon D50, 200mm zoom, 2.5 seconds.

Description

Moon at full eclipse, with Saturn below and Regulus above. (Also faintly Subra/omicron Leonis).
 

Photographer

Jessica

E-mail

crazyteen505@yahoo.com

Location

Glenwood, Georgia 30428

Date

2-20-08 9:42 pm

Equipment

HP photosmart digital camera

Description

this picture shows the earths shadow at an almost total eciplse.
 

Photographer

Omer Yagiz

E-mail

omer.yagiz@emu.edu.tr

Location

Ankara, Turkey

Date

02/21/2008 2:50 UTC

Equipment

Olympus E-510 camera; 40-150 mm. Zuiko lens; tripod

Description

This photo is a COLLAGE of two images taken the same night 5 minutes apart. The illuminated structure in the foreground is the mouseleum where Ataturk lies in Ankara. The pictures were taken from my balcony which overlooks the city of Ankara.
 

Photographer

Gustavo Gonzalez

Location

Las Flores, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Date

02/21/2008 02:58 UT

Equipment

Canon Eos 5D, Celestron C8 telescope, Equatorial mount

Description

The moon is totally eclipsed in Umbra 2
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