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Photographer

Vince Tuboly

E-mail

tubolyv@t-online.hu

Location

Hegyhat Observatory Hungary

Date

2007.10.16.

Equipment

50cm Ritchey-Chrétien telescope, FLI CM9 CCD camera,exp.: 8x30 sec.
 

Photographer

Jan Wisniewski

Location

Near Aldie, VA

Date

September 3, 2007

Equipment

Canon 350D (extended red response) on 80mm ZenithStar II ED APO refractor with 0.8x reducer, on GM8 mount. 5 x 1 sec. and 5 x 1/200 sec. images processed in IRIS, AIP4WIN and PhotoPaint.

Description

Moon "grazed" Pleiades on after midnight on Sept. 3, 2007. This was an extremelly difficult scene to image due to Moons brightness compared to Pleiades. Set of 1 sec. exposures was conbined to reveal stars and Eartshine, while 1/200 sec. exposures were used to reveal details of Moon surface.
 

Photographer

John Rozakis

E-mail

astrozakis@yahoo.com

Location

Kallidromos - Greece

Date

13-08-2007 01:15 am

Equipment

canon350d 70-300 apo lens at 70mm mount vixen GP exposure 120sec 1600 ISO

Description

simultaneous shooting all night long the Andromeda Galaxy waiting to catch a pers meteor. the original image was croped to show more details in this file size
 

Photographer

William Fukuba

Location

Mono Lake

Date

4:10am - 4:25am

Equipment

Canon 20D and 10 - 22mm lens @ 1/20-1/15 1600 4.5f

Description

Here are some shots of the Aurigids Meteor shower taken at the Lower Lee Vining camp ground. I saw about 20 meteors and managed to photograph 5 I composited the 5 together in Photoshop.
 

Photographer

Mauricio

E-mail

mani_chiriboga@hotmail.com

Location

Miami

Date

8/28/07 5:45 am

Equipment

3.5" Meade Ecuatorial mount Telescope with a Canon Powershot A400 i used a 25mm Lence

Description

In this picture it shows the earth's shadow on the Aug. 28 2007 Total Lunar eclipse.
 

Photographer

Chris Peterson

E-mail

clp@alumni.caltech.edu

Location

Guffey, Colorado, USA

Date

1 Sep 2007, midnight to dawn

Equipment

Video allsky camera, PC164C with fisheye lens.

Description

The image is a digital composite of 49 Aurigid meteors captured the morning of the shower. Nearly all occurred over about one hour, and a double peak of activity was detected, the first at UT 11:20 and the second at UT 11:35. The first peak showed a rate of over 100 meteors per hour brighter than mag 2.
 

Photographer

Mauricio Chiriboga

E-mail

mani_chiriboga@hotmail.com

Location

Miami FL

Date

8/28/07 3:50 a.m.

Equipment

3.5 inch reflector with 25mm Lence Canon Power Shot A400

Description

In this picture you can see the earth's shodow on the moon on the Total Lunar Eclipse Aug. 28 2007
 

Photographer

Charles Sterling

Location

Las Cruces, NM, USA

Date

9/1/2007 5:56:44am MDT

Equipment

Canon EOS Digital Rebel XTi; fixed mount, 30 seconds, 18mm, f/5.6, ASA1600

Description

One bright Aurigid meteor just before dawn. Orion, Taurus, Gemini, and Auriga frame the meteor.
 

Photographer

Michel Hersen

Location

Portland, Oregon

Date

September 8, 2007 at 6:04 am

Equipment

Taken at dawn on September 8, 2007 with a Nikon D 200 and Sigma Zoom Lens (70-300 mm.). The image was shot with an ISO of 1600, an F/6.7, and a 1/3rd second exposure. exposure. Hersen,

Description

This is a photo of the conjunction of the crescent moon with earthshine and venus at dawn.
 

Photographer

Jodie Reynolds

Location

Orangevale, CA, USA

Date

2007-09-01 04:57:28 PDT

Equipment

Canon 20D DSLR camera on fixed tripod, Tethered to a laptop for sequencing 45mm @ f/3.5, 30sec, ISO 1600

Description

This photograph is a capture of an example of the Aurigid Meteor outburst of Sept 1, 2007 PDT. The brightest star seen is Capella. The meteor trail is between 2 Aurigae and Hassaleh, in the constellation Auriga.
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