Photographer

Saber Karimi

E-mail

m_s_karimi2000@yahoo.com

Location

Outskirt of Kermanshah, Iran

Date

16/06/2011 00:45am

Equipment

Nikon D70

Description

Milky way band & full moon?!!! yeah, that's possible. you can watch following photo... here is summer band of milky way with most famous constellation like Cygnus, Lyra, Aquila at middle, and rising Cassiopeia at the lift. you can see Scorpius too, at right. also eclipsed moon shining in orange color.

Photographer

Les Dalrymple

Location

Sydney Observatory, Sydney Australia

Date

5:57am

Equipment

Canon EOS 40d Sigma 70-300 lens at 270mm, f/5.6 6 seconds at ISO 640

Description

Total Lunar Eclipse, Sydney Observatory.

Photographer

Giacomo Bartolacci

E-mail

giacomo9783@libero.it

Location

Lucignano, Tuscany - Italy

Date

15th June 2011, 19:08 UT

Equipment

modified EOS 40D on William Optics 80mm, Vixen GP; 1/25 sec at 400 ISO

Description

The rising Moon 13 minutes before the beginning of totality during Total Lunar Eclipse of 15th June 2011

Photographer

robert fields

E-mail

robertfields@yahoo.com

Location

United States

Date

June 2011

Equipment

Takahashi Epsilon 180 with STL 4020

Description

Ha:OIII:R:R:G:B 240:180:80:80:30 min Total minutes: 610 or 10.16 hours

Photographer

Samuele Gasparini

E-mail

sam.gasp@yahoo.it

Location

Agritourism Torre Doganiera Pievescola (Si) Italy

Date

29.05.2011 h. 03.10 Am

Equipment

Refr. Skywatcher 80Ed with 0.85 flattener/reducer and Canon 1000d. Mount Skywatcher Eq6 . 7x6 min shots at 800 Iso. Guide equipement: Magzero M5 on Scopos 66Ed. Samuele Gasparini. Web address: www.astrobook.it

Description

M8 (Lagoon nebula) and M20 (Trifid nebula) wide located in an incredibly rich area of the Milky Way in Sagittarius

Photographer

Bernard Miller

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM

Date

May 21 and 25, 2011

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 FTO Luminance: 12x10 minutes Red: 6x10 minutes Green: 6x10 minutes Blue: 6x10 minutes

Description

Here is a picture of a Galaxy Cluster known as Markarian's Chain. This is not the entire cluster, but includes a section centered around M86 (The large galaxy in the center of the picture). Markarian's Chain is part of the Virgo cluster of galaxies in the constellation of Virgo. It is named after Armenian astrophysicist, B. E. Markarian, who discovered their common motion in the early 1960s. The galaxies in this picture include M86 (in the center), then counter clockwise from the left side of the image are NGC4438, NGC4435, NGC4402, M84, NGC4387, NFC4388, NGC 4413, and NGC4425.

Photographer

Bob Franke

Location

Chino Valley, AZ

Date

9/9/2010 to 10/26/2010

Equipment

RCOS 12.5" Ritchey-Chrétien Scope SBIG STL-11000 camera using Astrodon filters Paramount ME mount

Description

The Western Veil, NGC 6960, commonly named The Witch's Broom, is part of the Veil Nebula, which is also known as the Cygnus Loop. The Veil nebula is located in the constellation Cygnus, about 1400 light-years from Earth Although this image was taken with Ha and OIII narrow band filters, it is a good presentation of how the nebula looks if red, green and blue filters were used. This is possible because the band width of the OIII filter is about half way between green and blue. Ha is mapped to red and OIII to green and blue.

Photographer

Melissa Hulbert

E-mail

mhulbert@ozemail.com.au

Location

Sydney Observatory, Sydney, Australia

Date

13 May 2011 at 5:39am

Equipment

Canon 7D, 18-250mm zoom lens at 63mm, f/5, ISO 400, 2.5 sec exposure

Description

The Opera House and Sydney Harbour made a spectacular backdrop as the four planets (Jupiter, Venus, Mercury and Mars) rose in the eastern pre-dawn sky.

Photographer

Bernard Miller and Arei Nagel

E-mail

bgmiller011@cox.net

Location

Rancho Hidalgo, NM and Eindhoven, Netherlands

Date

May 2011

Equipment

Telescope: TEC-140 (F7) for RGB Telescope: 300mm Newtonian (F3.9) for Luminance Camera: SBIG ST-8300M Mount: AP900 GTO for Tec-140 Luminance:5 x 12 minutes, 1x8 minutes, 18 x 5 minutes Red: 6x5 minutes (unbinned) Green: 6x5 minutes (unbinned) Blue: 6x5 minutes (unbinned)

Description

This picture is a collaboration between Bernard Miller from Phoenix, AZ and Arie Nagel, Eindhoven, Netherlands. Arie took the luminance date on his 300mm Newtonian and combined it with the RGB from Bernard's TEC-140. Both used the SBIG ST8300M camera. The image processing was done by Arie and Bernard.

Photographer

Lynn Hilborn

E-mail

lynnhilborn@yahoo.ca

Location

Grafton, Ontario

Date

Jan 30 and Feb 04,2011

Equipment

TeleVue NP101is @ f4.3 Finger Lakes ML8300 camera Losmandy G11 mount

Description

NGC 2170 Lum 13x10m bin 1x1, RGB each 5x5m bin 2x2, taken with NP101is @f4.3 and FLI ML8300 camera. Taken by Lynn Hilborn, WhistleStop Observatory, Grafton,Ontario on Jan 30 and Feb 04, 2011.