Photographer

Benjamin Gomes-Casseres

Location

Manchester, VT

Date

June 19, 2010, 2:35-3:06 am

Equipment

Tak Epsilon160, Tak EM200, Canon 450D; further details on the web link, including processing.

Description

It's all on the weblink, including the three versions -- static stars, static comet, and combination. The sky was perfect and I was lucky to catch the comet from a just after 2am, rising over distant mountain ridge. 10 good subs and lots of digital processing (Bernhard Huble method) led to a good result. If you are interested in full-res version for magazine or other use, let me know.

Photographer

Steve Yerby

E-mail

syerby@gmail.com

Location

Richmond, VT

Date

2:30am est

Equipment

ED80 with Canon XT CGE Mount Meade DSI - guide on star (not comet) Exposure - 15 mins (3x5)

Description

This one was hard to catch due to it's close timing with twilight...

Photographer

zoran

Location

croatia

Date

17.04.2010. 20.52

Equipment

Canon EOS 50D, ef 17-40 lens mounted on a tripod

Description

Photo shows 3 day old Moon over M45 and Venus.

Photographer

Derek Santiago

E-mail

schmeah@aol.com

Location

Morristown,NJ USA

Date

4/30/10 - 5/6/10

Equipment

Imaging CCD: QSI 540wsg. Imaging Scope: 10" LX200R Guide camera: SX Lodestar Guide scop: SVR90T Filters: Astrodon 5nm OIII and Ha, LRGB

Description

The Cat's Eye is a planetary nebula in the constellation Draco. The bright central core is easily observed in any telescope of moderate aperture. The extended outer halo, which spans more than five light years across, is rarely seen even in long exposure images. This image is a result of a composite of more than 13 hours of both short (1 minute) and long (20 minute) subexposures, which was required to capture the full dynamic range of this very complex nebula.

Photographer

Gianni Pasquali

E-mail

spicantares@alice.it

Location

Cimone Trentino North Italy

Date

02/05/2009 21h11m32s

Equipment

Canon eos 40D at prime focus of a Maksutov Cassegrain Intes Micro Alter M603 on a Vixem GP mount with Skysensor 2000

Description

The moon seems a world in black and white but if we exaggerate the colors in phase of elaboration we realize there of as its surface is various. This is due to differences in chemical components of the lunar surface, due to remixing caused by asteroidal impacts or from lava effusions.

Photographer

Dieter Willasch

Location

Mount Ceder, South Africa

Date

12+13 March 2010

Equipment

Nikkor 50mm lens 1:1.4 @ f/3.5 Takahashi EM-11 SBIG STL-11000M

Description

This wide field image spans nearly 40x30 degrees in the sky and covers mainly parts of the constellations of Scorpius and Ophiuchus. In the upper right part of the image colorful nebulae around Antares, a massive Red Giant star, are displayed, but also extended dark nebulae lanes, the largest of them the so called Dark River, running from Antares down to the huge Dark Horse nebula complex at the bottom right. Left of center the very faint nebulosity around the star Zeta Ophiuchi can be seen, which has rarely been imaged.

Photographer

Efrain Morales Rivera

E-mail

jaicoa52@yahoo.com

Location

Aguadilla, Puerto Rico

Date

03/31/10, 03:44ut

Equipment

LX200ACF 12 in. OTA, F25, CGE mount, DMK21AF04 Ccd, PowerMate 2.5x barlows, Astronomik LRGB filter set.

Description

On this session conditions were optimum capturing the grand ring planet and with some of its principle moons on the same fov. From Left to Right Titan, Mimas (small dot above the rings right of disc) Dione and Tethys.

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Buena Vista, GA

Date

03:47 UT 3/1/10

Equipment

C14@f/41 Lumenera 2-0M AP1200

Description

This image of Mars was taken under good seeing as Mars begins to leave the 2010 apparition.

Photographer

Wynn Myers

Location

Central NC

Date

03/06/2010

Equipment

Orion 120 ED Atlas EQ-G Canon 350D modified Orion Starshoot autoguider Spike-A-Mask

Description

Captured and pre-process in Nebulosity (Macinosh). Post processing in Photoshop CS4. Taken at our dark sky spot in central NC on 03/06/2010. Seeing was about as good as it gets. Temp was approx. 19 deg F.

Photographer

James Vernacotola

E-mail

jamesvernacotola@gmail.com

Location

Ponte Vedra Florida

Date

February 8, 2010 4:14 am

Equipment

Canon EOS Rebel T1i, with a Canon EF-S 17-55mm f/2.8 IS USM lens; no filters.

Description

02/08/2010 at 4:14 am - STS-130 Space Shuttle Endeavor launches into orbit, leaving behind a beautiful reflection on the Intracoastal Waterway. This photo was shot from the Intracoastal Waterway Bridge in Ponte Vedra, Florida; about 115 miles north of the launch pad.