Photographer

Ben Canales

E-mail

Ben@theStarTrail.com

Location

Dee Wright Observatory, Oregon

Date

July 9th, 2010; 11:30pm

Equipment

Canon 5d Mark ii, 24mm

Description

Sadly, the clouds are lit entirely by light pollution from the cities in the valley behind the mountains. This was shot on a night with just about zero moon light, so the illumination is coming from 80+ miles away and still packs quite a punch. But, I love the color temperature of the light pollution against the deep blue of the stars.

Photographer

Emil Ivanov

E-mail

emivanov1@hotmail.com

Location

Rozhen, Bulgaria

Date

August 12, 2010

Equipment

Canon 40D digital camera with 10 mm lenses at F4 on Meade LX75 mount for tracking

Description

Combination of 21 two-minute exposures. Shows the radiant of Perseid Meteor Shower

Photographer

Derek Santiago

E-mail

schmeah@aol.com

Location

Morristown,NJ USA

Date

9/23/09 and 8/6/10

Equipment

Imaging Camera: QSI540wsg Imaging Scope: 10"LX200R at F/10 Guide Camera: SX Lodestar Mount: Meade 10"LX200R Filters: Astrodon 5nm OIII, LRGB, IDAS LPS

Description

This is a deep image of the Planetary Nebula NGC 7662, also known as the Blue Snowball Nebula, in the constellation Andromeda. Long exposures using an OIII filter show detail in the rarely seen outer halo.

Photographer

Parks Squyres

Location

SaddleBrooke, Arizona

Date

06.04.2010 00:00

Equipment

11" Celestron Telescope Additional Equipment HyperStar 3 Baader UHC-S Filter Camera Canon/Hutech 350 D Software DeepSkyStacker, Gimp2.6, Adobe Photo Shop Elements 7, and Paint Shop Pro 10

Description

The images were made over a peroid of 3 hours each on June 3rd & June 4th using approx. 500 short 10 second exposures on both nights. The seeing was not as good on the 4th so the images of Ceres are slightly larger.

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Buena Vista, GA

Date

8-8-10 7:47 & 8:35 UT

Equipment

C14@f/28 Paramount ME PGR Flea 3

Description

The seeing was very good this morning when these images were taken. They feature the close proximity of Oval BA and the GRS.

Photographer

Alson Wong

Location

Paul Gauguin, French Polynesia

Date

July 11, 2010

Equipment

Nikkor 300 mm f/4 lens Nikon D300

Description

This image shows a Baily's bead from the Sun's photosphere.

Photographer

RAMIRO PEREZ DE PAULA

E-mail

roperez@adinet.com.uy

Location

Cerro Huiliche-El Calafate-Argentina

Date

11/07/2010, during totality

Equipment

Sony camera, "point & shoot"

Description

One of the best sights of the 11/7 eclipse was the cone of the shadow of the moon coming to cover our observing site. Usually, when the sun is high at totality, the cone is not that easy to see, but at El Calafate, the sun was very low, so the umbra crossed the site parallel to the ground, and was easily visible and very noted.

Photographer

Chunki Park

Location

Yosemite National Park, U.S.

Date

6/26/2010, 11:59pm

Equipment

Canon EOS 450d, 28mm/f4/15secs, ISO800

Description

A moonbow is a rainbow produced by the Moon rather than the Sun. This photo captured a fantastic moonbow over the Yosemite (upper) Fall during the summer season. You may also find a part of Big Dipper from the photo.

Photographer

Donald Gardner

E-mail

don.gardner@stanfordalumni.org

Location

Atoll de Hao, French Polynesia

Date

July 11, 2010 18:44 UTC

Equipment

Canon 7D camera (18 Mpixel) with Takahashi FSQ-106ED telescope and 1.6x Extender-QE 106 mm aperture, Focal ratio of 8 including Extender-QE ISO 400, 1/6000 sec exposure time, no filters

Description

Pink prominences floating next to the Sun during a total eclipse as seen from the remote atoll of Hao (consisting of a coral reef surrounding a lagoon) about 550 miles east of Tahiti in the South Pacific. Lunar mountains and valleys can also be seen.

Photographer

Michele Brusa

E-mail

michele.brusa@tiscali.it

Location

Bamberg (Germany)

Date

2008/02/21- 02:00 UT

Equipment

Nikon D40 70-200 f. 5,6

Description

Fantastic lunar eclipse on Bamberg Cathedral (Germany)