Photographer

J

E-mail

blog@jbassoe.dk

Location

Copenhagen, Denmark

Date

3 March 2010

Equipment

106mm Ha solartelescope, Imaging source DMK41

Description

It's so nice that the sun is finally showing us some action!

Photographer

Tom Murdic

E-mail

murdic1@bellsouth.net

Location

Franklin, Tennessee,USA

Date

03/04/10 at 9:00 pm

Equipment

AT 66mm,coupled to a modified Canon XT on a Celestron CI 700 GEM.

Description

This image is the result of 60, 2 minutes light subs. IC 2177 is a very large emission nebula between the constellations of Monoceros and Canis Major. This nebula is also known as the Seagull Nebula

Photographer

Aman

E-mail

astronomyaman@yahoo.co.in

Location

Delhi, India

Date

15/1/2010 14:13

Equipment

DSC-H50; no mount just tripod

Description

Here's how the annular solar eclipse on January 15, 2010, appeared from Delhi, India. Although the photographer was far away from the central line of eclipse, in this view the Moon clearly looks smaller than the Sun.

Photographer

Elias Chasiotis

E-mail

eliasastro@freemail.gr

Location

Sounion, Greece.

Date

2010/01/15, 06:00 UT.

Equipment

Bresser Skylux 70mm F10 refractor, Canon EOS 450D, JMB Solar Filter 60/75mm, ISO 400, exposure 1/125 sec.

Description

With a small telescope and a solar filter, prominent sunspots were visible during the Annular Eclipse of January 15, 2010. Atmospheric turbulence is also evident in the image, due to the very low altitude of the eclipsed rising sun.

Photographer

Brian Combs

E-mail

bgcombs@cox.net

Location

Buena Vista, GA

Date

06:50:00 UT 1-11-10

Equipment

C14@f/36 AP1200 mount Lumenera 2-0M camera

Description

This image of Mars was taken under good seeing conditions approximately two weeks before the 2010 opposition.

Photographer

Tom Beard

Location

Death Valley, California

Date

Dec 13, 2009 8PM-2AM

Equipment

Orion Sirius mount, Nikon D300 with 24mm f/2 lens at f/2.8. 650 frames at 30 seconds, ISO 6400.

Description

I wanted to get meteor trails showing the radiant near Castor. Since it wass snowing near Reno had to go far south. Worked well, but all the really brilliant meteors were near the horizon, and thus not in the picture.

Photographer

Milan Gucic

E-mail

milangucic@gmail.com

Location

Adza, Serbia

Date

November 2009.

Equipment

Canon 350D (self-mod Baader UV/IR filter), Zenitar 50/1.7@4.5($9) with B&W Redhancer filter, auto-guided on Losmandy G-8 with Astrolumina through TAIR 300/4.5; 19x10min @ISO1600 + 15x30s @ISO1600 Preprocessed in IRIS, post-processing in PS CS2&CS4 Adzine Livade (Adza's meadows), Sumadija, Serbia, Balkans.

Description

...amazing revealing of dust, nebula, stars, clusters just popped out after modifying my DSLR for better response to important wavelengths from space. A true winter constellation in another view.

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

November 5, 11 & 12, 2009

Equipment

Telescope: Astro Tech AT8IN 8” f/4 Newtonian Accessories: Baader MPCC Mount: Orion Atlas EQ-G controlled by EQMOD Guiding: Orion StarShoot AutoGuider on William Optics ZS66 Camera: Self-modified Canon Digital Rebel XT Acquisition: ImagesPlus 3.75 Camera Control

Description

The Wizard Nebula is a large, diffuse HII region in Cepheus associated with the star cluster NGC7380. It is ionized by the binary star DH Cephei. Stewart Sharpless cataloged this as object 142 in his 1959 catalog. This image is a composite of 6 hours of RGB color data combined with 3 hours of Hydrogen-Alpha data.

Photographer

Hunter Wilson

Location

Lexington, Ohio

Date

November 12, 2009

Equipment

Celestron 9.25 reduced 0.63, SBIG ST-4000XCM, Astro-Physics Mach1GTO

Description

Jones-Emberson 1 (PK164+31.1) in Lynx, 16x10min, Imager Temp -20C, 50% Crop. Coordinates: 07h 57m 30s; +53º 25 ’ 30’’. Jones-Emberson 1 (PK164+31.1) is a 14th magnitude planetary nebula in the constellation Lynx at a distance of 1600 light years. It is a larger planetary with low surface brightness. The 16.8-magnitude central star is very blue white dwarf. Discovered in 1939 by R. Jones and R. Emberson, it's "PK" designation comes from the names of Czechoslovakian astronomers Perek and Kohoutek, who in 1967 created an extensive catalog of all of the planetary nebulas known in the Milky Way as of 1964.

Photographer

Craig & Tammy Temple

Location

Hendersonville, TN

Date

October 18, 19, 2009

Equipment

Astro Tech AT8IN 8” f/4 Newtonian with Baader MPCC, guided; Orion Atlas EQ-G; Modified Canon Digital Rebel XT; Astronomik CLS-CCD EOS Clip; 98 x 240s @ ISO 800; ImagesPlus 3.75, Adobe Photoshop CS4, Gradient XTerminator, Noise Ninja, Noel Carboni's Tools

Description

M33 is a magnitude 6.27 spiral galaxy lying about 3 million light-years away in the constellation Triangulum. It was cataloged by Charles Messier in 1784, but was possibly discovered by Giovanni Batista Hodierna in 1654. The Triangulum Galaxy is known to contain many huge H-II regions - one being the largest known.